In order to foster the art & culture in Hong Kong, ICG sponsors Opera Hong Kong's performances in November. Hong Kong residents and people from different parts of the world can appreciate and learn the Mozart German Opera. The performance namely, The Magic Flute, will be held in November 5-9, 2009 in Grand Theater, Hong Kong Cultural Center.

Mozart's German opera The Magic Flute was the last of his operas to be staged, and was still running in Vienna at the time of the composer¡¦s death in early December 1791. The libretto was by the actor-manager Emanuel Schikaneder, who took the part of the bird-catcher Papageno, and offers a mixed picture. The work itself draws on Masonic ideals of enlightenment and universal brotherhood, but mingles this with traditional Viennese comedy. This offers contemporary audiences heroism in the ordeals that the hero, Prince Tamino must undergo to win the hand of his beloved Pamina and enlightenment, the sacred in the solemn music of the high priest Sarastro, vocal pyrotechnics in the coloratura of the Queen of the Night, and, above all, magic in the enchanted world in which the piece is set.

Further Information,please visit:
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/
en/music/000000ea.html

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