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07-10-05, 09:33 PM
Musicals are making their entry back into cinema
Just after the news about 'The Princess Bride' which is to get the Broadway musical treatment we have heard, that acclaimed actor and director Kenneth Branagh has chosen Mozart's "The Magic Flute" for his next movie.
He intends to bring the adventures of Prince Tamino and Papageno to the big screen, as they battle evil forces to rescue Princess Pamina (Carson).
The opera was one of Mozart's last works that he wrote in 1791. He died in December 1791, just two months after it premiered in Vienna.
The report said that Branagh had chosen actors from the world of opera for the main roles.
The most prominent member of the cast is bass Rene Pape, who will play Sarastro. Soprano Lyubov Petrova will play the Queen Elizabeth of the Night. Tenor Joseph Kaiser, a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's training program, will play Tamino; Ben Davis, a baritone with several Broadway credits, with play Papageno. Amy Carson, a relatively unknown soprano, will play Pamina.
Both Davis and Kaiser appeared in film director Baz Luhrmann's Broadway version of Puccini's La bohème.
Music for the opera is slated to be recorded this fall; shooting will begin in January. The film's budget is about USD 20 million. Branagh wrote the adaptation with Stephen Fry.
Branagh has directed and starred in film versions of Shakespeare's Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet.
Just after the news about 'The Princess Bride' which is to get the Broadway musical treatment we have heard, that acclaimed actor and director Kenneth Branagh has chosen Mozart's "The Magic Flute" for his next movie.
He intends to bring the adventures of Prince Tamino and Papageno to the big screen, as they battle evil forces to rescue Princess Pamina (Carson).
The opera was one of Mozart's last works that he wrote in 1791. He died in December 1791, just two months after it premiered in Vienna.
The report said that Branagh had chosen actors from the world of opera for the main roles.
The most prominent member of the cast is bass Rene Pape, who will play Sarastro. Soprano Lyubov Petrova will play the Queen Elizabeth of the Night. Tenor Joseph Kaiser, a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's training program, will play Tamino; Ben Davis, a baritone with several Broadway credits, with play Papageno. Amy Carson, a relatively unknown soprano, will play Pamina.
Both Davis and Kaiser appeared in film director Baz Luhrmann's Broadway version of Puccini's La bohème.
Music for the opera is slated to be recorded this fall; shooting will begin in January. The film's budget is about USD 20 million. Branagh wrote the adaptation with Stephen Fry.
Branagh has directed and starred in film versions of Shakespeare's Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet.