Details

The music is a collaboration of several composers including Mozart, and is a forerunner to The Magic Flute (1791). Recent exciting discoveries of missing sections of the score from among looted manuscripts in Russia have enabled a reconstruction of this little known work. This production is supported by JP Morgan. To celebrate the 250th year of Mozart's birth, Garsington Opera's tribute will be to stage the re-discovered The Philosophers' Stone (Der Stein der Weisen) performed in Vienna in 1790 with a libretto by Emanuel Schikanader.

Cast/Performers

Amy Freston (Nadine), Leigh Melrose (Lubano), Ashley Catling (Nadir), Iain Paton (Astromonte), Michael Druiett (Eutifronte), Damian Thantrey (Sadik), Katherine Bond (Genius), Teuta Koco

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart (and Henneberg. Schack. Gerl. Schikaneder)
Lyrics: Emanuel Schikanader
Company: Garsington Opera
Director: John Cox
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Design: Peter Ruthven Hall
Choreographer: Scott Ambler