Tara Faircloth has been directing shows for Arizona Opera since making her debut in 2015. She's back to remount a Steampunk-inspired take on 'The Magic Flute.'
Cathalena E. Burch While Arizona Opera has its sights set on the 2023-24 season, the company will bring its 2022-23 season finale to Linda Ronstadt Music Hall this weekend.
People are also reading… Faircloth, who has been a regular to Arizona Opera since debuting in 2015 with Puccini’s “Eugene Onegin,” sees “The Magic Flute” as “delightful piece of theater” that can be viewed on two levels: as a story about Mankind’s search of self-actualization to become a whole person and as a story of two goofy guys having an adventure and meeting interesting, wacky characters as they face challenges to complete their mission.
“The princess wears a pretty pink dress and the Temple of Wisdom priests all look kinda like ‘Harry Potter’ characters,” she said. “They’re wearing a lot of velvet robes and such.” “Basically, we cut the bad parts. We cut so many of those parts. That’s one way a modern director can address problematic scores is we just take out the parts we don’t like,” said Faircloth, a 20-year veteran of opera stages around the country. “And I think that Mozart would applaud this. He was the ultimate craftsman of the dramaturgy. He was a man of the people and he wrote what his audience would enjoy and he did it very well.
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