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The Flora L. Thornton School presents a modern, futuristic version of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".
The Flora L. Thornton School of Music presents four performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute, with Timothy Lindberg conducting and Dejan Miladinovic as the stage director.
Originally written by Emanuel Schikaneder and performed at Mozart’s Theater auf der Wieden, The Magic Flute is an epic opera exploring deceit, love and brotherhood. Prince Tamino is saved from a monster by the Three Ladies of the Queen of the Night and, falling in love with the Queen’s daughter, Pamina, sets out to rescue the abducted Princess from the evil Sarasto and his slave Monostratos. With the aid of his magic flute, Prince Tamino rescues the Princess and discovers that it is the Queen who is evil, not Sarasto. Immediately Tamino and Pamina fall in love, but are soon ripped apart as Tamino undergoes a series of trials to be admitted into a brotherhood, ensuring his safety. After Pamina is attacked again by Monostratos, and Tamino passes his trials with the help of his magic flute, the Queen, the Three Ladies and Monostatos are engulfed by a clap of thunder and the remainder of the cast celebrates the victory of light over darkness.
Thornton Opera director Timothy Lindberg made his conducting debut at New York’s Town Hall in 1987 with Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. As music director to the New York based Pala Opera Association he continued this series with two other Rossini rarities, La Gazza Ladra, and La Donna del Lago, also performed at New York’s Town Hall. These productions were met with critical acclaim and Andrew Porter of The New Yorker wrote, “Maestro Lindberg is as able a Rossini conductor as I have heard in years.” Mr. Lindberg currently serves as the Artistic Director of Opera Idaho in Boise, Idaho and as the Music Director of the Thornton Opera Program at the USC Thornton School of Music. He has conducted frequently with the Lake George Opera Festival and has been guest conductor with the Toledo Opera, Cleveland Lyric Opera, Harrisburg Opera, Amarillo Opera, and the Newport Music Festival in addition to the many productions he has cast and conducted with Opera Idaho.
Born into a family of opera artists, Dejan Miladinovic has staged more than thirty productions with major US Opera Companies: Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera, New York Opera, Baltimore Opera Florentine Opera, Opera Pacific, Austin Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera, Atlanta Opera, Columbus Opera and others. Born and schooled in Yugoslavia, Miladinovic has a bachelors degree in Theatre Direction from the Academy for Theatre in Belgrade and received the title Master of Theatrical Arts from the same Academy. Currently Miladinovic holds the following positions: Artistic Director of Belgrade National Opera, Head Director of Belgrade National Opera, Distinguished Professor and Artistic Director of Opera Theatre at Music Conservatory, Belgrade, and Associate Professor at the Flora L. Thornton School of Music. Miladinovic has been described by The Yugoslav Encyclopedia of Music as: “…the artist of imaginative, daring and unconventional solutions. He has staged a number of operas with great success. Audiences and critics always evaluate his productions favorably because of their evident theatrical qualities and modern directorial approach.”
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