This production of the Magic Flute is unique: "The singers have to slip into three roles"
Created: 10/19/2022, 2:30 p.m
By: Marc Write
The two singers Doris Langara and singer Philipp Gaiser carry their versatility on their backs.
You're wearing two costumes here.
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For a good year, the musician Andreas Haas (50) from Höhenkirch worked on the staging of the "Piccolo Magic Flute" based on the model of the Mozart opera.
The play will be performed on Friday, October 21 at 7.30 p.m. in the parish hall of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Höhenkirchen.
You dealt with the project in March a year ago, and now it's finally coming to the district...
I had a long year to implement "Piccolo-Magic Flute" and went hiking a lot.
I collected ideas and then put them on paper.
Because otherwise nothing was going well.
The piece is cast with singer Doris Langara and singer Philipp Gaiser as well as harpist Barbara Gollwitzer and me.
I am the narrator, the harpist also speaks from time to time and acts scenically.
We are multifunctional in action.
You have to get that right first.
Exactly, and then there is the frame story with the piccolo, i.e. the small flute, which makes its grand entrance.
She has come up short in two ways.
It's a small instrument and doesn't get played very often, but this production is where it makes its big entrance.
The Höhenkirchen musician Andreas Haas has mastered an original production.
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As in the original version of The Magic Flute, the pan flute plays a central role.
Yes, we have them with us too.
But how that behaves with us will not be revealed.
Perhaps that's what's special about making a piece suitable for children, introducing something new and giving the whole thing even more appeal.
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You have now addressed my problem with your formulation.
This is not a children's production.
I'm well-known for my project Classic for Children, but notice.
This put me in a corner.
Now it's a matter of saying: Haas can also do adults.
The piece is therefore explicitly not a children's production, but is aimed at a family audience, at adults as well as children and young people from the age of twelve, because the arias sung can be heard in their entirety.
The content with suicide plans and revenge desires of the Pamina mother, the queen of the night, are not concealed.
What particularly appealed to you about the material?
Well, to manage to get it for four people.
The Magic Flute is an opera with an incredible number of people on stage.
The two singers each have to slip into three roles.
We also solved the costume question.
The two singers wear a two-part costume.
With a left and a right half.
Accordingly, they have to face the audience on stage.
For the third role, a coat and headdress are worn over it.
It also seems very difficult tonally to fully exploit the spectrum with two singers, doesn't it?
Absolutely correct.
That also makes it quite unique in this line-up.
First you have to find a colleague who can sing Pamina and Queen of the Night.
That makes Doris great, and so does Philipp, when he sings Sarastro and Papageno.
Both have a wide vocal range.
Interview: Marc Oliver Schreib