THE MAGIC FLUTE
March 2023
El Portal Theater
El Portal Theater
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Mar 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, & 26, 2023
MUSIC | W.A. Mozart
NEW ENGLISH LIBRETTO | Josh Shaw & E. Scott Levin
JOSH SHAW | Director
JOSH FOY | Music Director
EMMA ROCHELEAU | Stage Manager
MAGGIE GREEN | Costumes
DAVID HANDLER | Set Construction
ARNOLD L GEIS | Tamino
ASHLEY FABIAN | Pamina
E. SCOTT LEVIN | Papageno
MARIAH RAE | Papagena
WILLIAM GRUNDLER | Monastatos
MICHELLE DREVER | Queen of the Night
ANDREW POTTER | Sarastro
TIFFANY HO | First Lady
ARIEL PISTURINO | Second Lady
MEGAN POTTER | Third Lady
ALEC FORE | Priest/Armored Man
MICHAEL PAYNE | Priest/Armored Man
NIKO MURAKAMI | First Spirit
AMANDA BENJAMIN | Second Spirit
CHRISTINE LI | Third Spirit
POP brings back its 2019 season-opening tour-de-force production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute AKA #Superflute, set in classic video games from the early 1990s. The “super” production transports Papageno, Tamino, and the gang to the land of video games resembling Mario Bros. and Zelda with a new English libretto by Artistic Director Josh Shaw and E. Scott Levin. Opera Magazine wrote that the new production "could bring in a new generation of opera-goers” and Opera Today raved “Pacific Opera Project’s rollicking new take on The Magic Flute is as much endearing fun as a box full of puppies. And as ingenious Artistic Director Josh Shaw has reimagined the piece (marketed as #Superflute), the staging is also just about as relentlessly and adorably rambunctious, all the while proving to be commendably musically refined… I loved it. I think Mozart would have loved it. If not, to hell with him!”