Opéra-ballet, 1 act and 18 scenes without pause

Length of the performance 60 minutes

Homage to Shakespeare and to Mozart for the Mozart Year 2006

Expressive techniques: mime, dance, songs and acting

Languages used for the performance: Italian, French and German

Suitable to young people of all ages

The Flute of Love’s Lost pursues Bricabrac’s pedagogical intent of researching and studying great classical works with children and young people. Bricabrac’s commitment started with THE NUTCRACKER, A NEVER-ENDING STORY, continued with ALICE'S MIRROR and ended with THE FRENZY OF ORLANDO.

The year 2006 was dedicated to Mozart and it was celebrated throughout the world. Bricabrac, in its own small way, paid homage to the genius mind of the great composer from Salzburg, by approaching his most stunning, agreeable and ironic work: The Magical Flute. Imagination over imagination Bricabrac has therefore interwoven its plot to Shakespeare’s soft dream of love’s lost and found, to Mirò and Calder’s ethereal and witty dreams and to the dream of flying over a surreal circus.

The performance was born from the idea of presenting great music and great poetry to a younger audience. For this reason the two languages of Mozart and of Shakespeare have been put together to create a colourful, ironic, funny performance, in the full respect of the sublime Flute music and of Bardo’s verses. It is an invitation to everyone, young and old people, to enjoy beautiful music and refined verses. In the respect of Mozart’s spirit the story takes place in the dream of a surreal circus, flying high over the clouds of the Queen of the Night, spirits and angels, following Calder and Mirò’s shapes and colours.

The prince Tamino and the princess Pamina are engaged, but this fable requires that, before their encounter, they would have to experience fire and cold in their lives, separation and pursuit of each other, doubts, loneliness and conflicts, even with their parents. It is the simple and, at the same time, the intricate fable of life. In the respect of the delicacy of the plot, but aiming at generating a smile, we did a portrayal of the main characters with a hint of irony: Tamino, ideal prince, follows a destiny chosen by others, whereas for Papageno the choices of life should be risky; princess Pamina shows the dull perfection of who always avoids every mistake; the Queen of the Night gives finally voice to the right claims of a mother and a woman and the wise Sarastro outlines the role of the father as if it was just an abstract theorem.
But in the end of the fable, do Pamina and Papagena actually exist or are they just a dream?

Realized by BRICABRAC, thanks to the contribution of the MUNICIPALITY AND OF THE PROVINCE of BOLZANO

MUSIC:

Above all the music from Mozart with some of the most beautiful tunes taken from the Magic Flute and some piano sonatas, together with Gerschwin, Le Bars, Aubry, Santa Esmeralda

SCENES AND COSTUMES:
original drawings, created for this performance and inspired by Mirò and Calder
Costumes by Armida Ostet
Scenes by Mariapia Doliana

COREOGRAPHY:
Very colourful, rich in aereodynamical elements

LANGUAGE:
all the recitative are lyrics or dialogues taken from Shakespeare’s works (Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour’s Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream)

PICTURES:
Saverio Chindamo