The Magic Flute according to the Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio at the Bellini Theater

The Piazza Vittorio Orchestra brings its reinterpretation of "The Magic Flute" to the Bellini Theater, which becomes a multi-ethnic and contemporary musical fable

Will stop at Bellini Theater of Naples from 9 to 14 December 2014, the Italian tour ofOrchestra of Piazza Vittorio, the most important Italian multi-ethnic orchestra, which thus celebrates the 150 replicas of its highly original version of The magic Flute of Mozart.

The idea of revisiting The magic Flute, the famous Singspiel set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed in Vienna in 1791, dates back to 2007 from a proposal by Daniele Abbado for the Notte Bianca in Reggio Emilia.

The project was developed byOrchestra of Piazza Vittorio as if Mozart's opera were one musical fairy tale handed down in oral form and reached in different ways to each of the musicians. "As happens every time a story is transmitted from mouth to mouth, the events and characters have transformed, and even the music has moved away from the original."

We wanted to tell a contemporary flute, which takes place in a multiracial society of these times, and to avoid any misunderstanding. The Mozart Flute is set in a fantastic Egypt. Our instead is found in an imaginary place, without references to real geography.

The performance is not the complete performance of Mozart's opera. Some melodies are recognizable, others only outlined and mixed with original pieces by the Orchestra. Folk, reggae, classical, pop and jazz melodies will be played, with sounds full of references to other cultures. Every musician of theOrchestra of Piazza Vittorio will bring to the Opera its culture, its language: Arabic, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Wolof, Italian. The Orchestra is on stage not in the pit, as in the operas, and the musicians become characters simply by wearing their costume on stage and gaining the proscenium ...

THEOrchestra of Piazza Vittorio was born within the Apollo 11 Association and was conceived and created by Mario Tronco and Agostino Ferrente. On the representation of Il Flauto Magico, the artistic director Mario Tronco said:

Every time we think that the path of the Magic Flute has come to an end, something always happens that shows us that probably the path of the Piazza Vittorio Orchestra, with this show, is still very long