The Magic Fluteis a musical fairy tale, imaginative, exciting and with a happy ending. It is a play about power struggles and abuse of power, about children and their parents, about growing up, about wisdom and perfidy, about learning to distinguish between good and evil, light and shadow, and taking responsibility for oneself. And above all it is a piece about love - for life, for people in life, for the world, for nature, for eating, for telling stories, for learning. Of all the operas we know, no other work speaks to so many different people through its music, which is precisely why it combines so many different styles and spoken text. An opera that is incomparable – and incomparably popular. The fairytale staff: a prince, a valiant queen, three ladies, three boys, a bossy ruler, a bird catcher, a kidnapped daughter - the spectrum of humanity: individuals with their feelings, desires and beliefs. Two young people, Tamino and Pamina, who have to go through fire and water together to finally find each other. And everything is held together by a magic instrument that helps to overcome obstacles and dangers.
Not only fans of classical music know the absurdly eccentric, impressive coloratura of the Queen of the Night, the bird catcher song in folk song tone, Tamino's romantic portrait aria, the Sarastro aria of forgiveness. New voices in the ensemble have grown into the Mozart repertoire: Marco Lee as Tamino, Darwin Prakash as the bird catcher Papageno, Markus Suihkonen as Sarastro. Ketevan Chuntishvili is a newcomer to the ensemble and sings Pamina, the Greek coloratura soprano Dimitra Kotidou shines as Queen of the Night with the most famous top tones of all operatic arias.
Frank Hilbrich's production for the whole family tells of how the search for truth can lead to the dark frontier of death before the sun's rays illuminate the night - an encouragement to keep childish openness, bravery and heart.
A work that retains its attraction and its mystery between fairy tales, parables, initiation stories, Viennese suburban hype and the mystery of mankind. The goal: to lead people out of darkness into the clarity of reason. The driving forces: authoritarian power struggles and all-conquering love. The means: prudence, courage and Mozart's music. The fairy-tale characters: a strange prince, a pugnacious queen, three women, three boys, a bossy ruler - the spectrum of humanity: individuals with their feelings, desires and convictions. Two young people who have to go through fire and water together to finally find each other. And everything holds together a magic that helps to find the way through all dangers.
"Never has a dramatic product made a nation more universally happy than Mozart's immortal work The Magic Flute“, wrote the press as early as 1794. What premiered in Emanuel Schikaneder’s Viennese Off-Theater is still in the top five of the worldwide repertoire today. Not only fans of classical music know the absurd but impressive coloratura of the Queen of the Night, the bird catcher song, Tamino's romantic portrait aria, the song of love between people regardless of status, the Sarastro aria of forgiveness. A work that retains its attraction and its mystery between fairy tales, parables, initiation stories, Viennese suburban hype and the mystery of mankind. Frank Hilbrich's production for the whole family tells of how the search for truth can lead to the brink of death before the sun's rays illuminate the night - an encouragement to keep childlike openness, bravery and heart.