"The Magic Flute" distinguishes season of the Symphony Orchestra

Photo: Heidi Calderón (Archive)

The Symphony Orchestra of Holguín, under the baton of the German-born maestro Michael Elvermann, will give a concert next Saturday with selections from “The Magic Flute” by W.A. Mozart, as part of a season to celebrate its 22nd anniversary, on November 1st and the 60s of the Rodrigo Prats Lyric Theater.

In statements to digital newspaper ¡ahora!, the director of the Symphony Orchestra, Oreste Saavedra, said that this concert is a dream cherished for a long time that receives the support of the German embassy and its next goal is to achieve the presentation of this opera as a stage title, probably for the 2023 season.

He meant the conceptual, idiomatic, set design and costume complexities of Mozart's work with a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, a fairy tale that from the spectacular mixture of oratorio, Italian lyricism, opera buffa, German folkloric tradition and Vaudeville overcomes, like no other, the ancestral differences between music and theater.

“The German embassy has a special interest in encouraging this language in Cuba, which is studied both at the University of the Arts and in the lyrical company itself," Saavedra pointed out, and in this sense stressed the opportunity that Holguín artists have to exchange with a maestro from that European nation. "

Working with Holguín artists has been an immense pleasure due to the talent and discipline that distinguishes them," said Michael Elvermann, adding that "The Magic Flute" constitutes a trilogy of eighteenth-century European illustration, which in a single performance will be a kind of representation sung this November 26 from the Provincial Center of Plastic Arts of Holguín.