311. The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) 1956
Made for Television
- Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, produced 1791). Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder and Karl Ludwig Giesecke. English translation and adaptation by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Conductor and Artistic Director: Peter Herman Adler
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Produced by Samuel Chotzinoff. Associate Producer: Charles Polacheck. Special Production Assistant: Lincoln Kirstein. Directed by Kirk Browning. Stage Direction and Dances by George Balanchine. Production Design by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
- Premiere
First telecast: January 15, 1956, NBC Opera Theatre
- Cast
Queen of the Night, Laurel Hurley; Pamina, Leontyne Price; Sarastro, Yi-kwei Sze; Papageno, John Reardon; Tamino, William Lewis; Papagena, Adelaide Bishop; Monostatos, Andrew McKinley; Three Ladies (singers), Frances Paige, Joan Maynagh, Helen Vanni; Three Ladies (dancers), Françoise Martinet, Barbara Milberg, Eda Lioy
Performance Type
Television
Note
Balanchine created dance sequences for the Queen of the Night’s Three Ladies. The concept of the production as well as the movement direction was his.
1956 (NBC, NBC Opera Theater)
Kirk Browning, Rouben ter-Arutunian
