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DESCRIPTION:Sep 9-12\, 2026\nWe’re taught to think of the Enlightenment a
 s the Apollonian Age of Reason. Yet at the same time it called for that Di
 onysian counterculture of secrecy and shadow we know as Freemasonry. No ne
 ws there for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, a brother in the lodge Zur Neugekr
 önten Hoffnung (“New-Crowned Hope”)\, whose Magic Flute dramatizes th
 e tug-of-war between the opposing energies. In the patchwork Zaïde\, or T
 he Path of Light\, Raphaël Pichon (countertenor turned conductor and now 
 stage designer) reconstructs this chiaroscuro dynamic in materials from va
 rious Mozart rarities. An incomplete abduction-from-the-seraglio scenario
 —also entitled Zaïde—is likely Pichon’s most important source. Othe
 r numbers are lifted from Davide Penitente (a Biblical oratorio Mozart can
 nibalized from his Great Mass in C Minor\, K. 427\, also incomplete) and t
 he quite awesome incidental music for the embarrassing playscript Thamos\,
  King of Egypt. The director Wajdi Mouawad\, a theater artist of quietly s
 hamanic power\, has supplied new dialogue. Pichon’s crackerjack period b
 and Pygmalion is in the pit. The seraphic soprano Sabine Devieilhe\, whose
  native element is the stratosphere\, leads the cast—which\, since she a
 nd Pichon are a couple\, gives their partnership a whiff of The Magic Flut
 e’s celebration of Tamino and Pamina as fellow seekers and equals. The P
 aris run of their project follows its summer premiere at the Salzburg Fest
 ival.
LOCATION:Opéra Comique\, 1 Place Boieldieu\, 75002 Paris\, France
SUMMARY:Zaïde or the Path of Light
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 light
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