![]() ![]() (Surprisingly, there's no mashup of Whitney Houston's hit "Queen of the Night" with the Mozart aria of the same title.) Opera lovers can discover songs, including "Army of Me" by Bjork and "Just a Girl" by No Doubt, that show the '90s weren't all about flannel shirts and moany rock songs. I get the opera now.' In high school, my job was as an usher at the Ordway and I saw so many operas but I was not connecting."īut the reverse is true, too. ![]() "When I see it, I go, 'Oh, I'm getting it. "As an audience member, I've always appreciated this work so much," said Khazem, whose tastes run more to pop than op. ![]() Rodolfo Nieto plays Sarastro in “The Magic Flute” in Minnesota parks and gardens. "Magic Flute" will let audiences place the "Queen of the Night" aria they've probably heard without knowing where it comes from. The usual way to think of Mixed Precipitation's shows is that newer songs provide an entry point into opera. "Can someone jump through the window? Can you stand on the hood?" Her actors include vehicle veteran Hawkins, who appeared earlier this year in another musical set around one, "Hands on a Hardbody." "It's been really fun to think of goofy ways you can use a truck," said Khazem. In "Magic Flute," the two main settings are the school (the truck) and a tech firm whose practices could assist or bedevil it (the trailer). It's the stage, so you'll want to choose blanket or camp chair space accordingly. Here are a few other things to know about the show: As is its wont, Mixed Precipitation mixes opera with hits from a particular era - the '90s, when "Flute" is set - to create something entirely new. The story has never been the most important part of "The Magic Flute," so no need to get hung up on it. And Papageno, in the original a bird catcher, is the janitor who has to catch birds in the school because they're so underfunded that birds fly through holes in the ceiling," Khazem said. In ours, the women who save him are vice principals of the Strange Land Middle School. "In the original, this guy Tamino is attacked by a dragon and saved by these three women. The "Magic Flute" story is famously nonsensical but Mixed Precipitation's adaptation looks at the challenges facing schools and how tech giants poach their talent. It's all in a show now traveling the state, performing outdoors with little more than a truck for a set, some costumes and the imaginations of the company and audience. "Rodolfo has an aria and he has to accompany himself on guitar" said Taous Khazem, director of this year's Pickup Truck Opera, a take on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute." And I'm like, 'What can Joni not do?' She's singing, playing violin with the pit, dancing and also wearing a mask." It takes performers with special talents to tackle classical and pop music while sweating, swatting mosquitoes and executing hip-hop dance moves. ![]()
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