The Magic Flute by Mozart, pén 05 nov 2021, -tól (2021/2022), Rendezte Christina Piegger, Karmester Basil H. E. Coleman, Fabio Cerroni, Stadttheater Passau, Passau, Germany

The realm of the Queen of the Night and the wisdom-lit world of Sarastro are hostile to one another. If the prince Tamino initially sympathized with the queen, who fears for her captured daughter Pamina, the world of Sarastro gradually casts him under its spell. The clear distinctions between good and bad become more and more blurred in the course of the opera. Sometimes it's the three women, sometimes three boys, who want to give Tamino and his companion Papageno the direction. The hero eventually goes through the initiation rite of the ordained priesthood and gains spiritual maturity through the trials imposed on him. After successfully completing the fire and water test, Tamino can finally be happy with Pamina. The Magic Flute was conceived in 1791 as a singspiel for a suburban theater in Vienna; today it is the most famous opera in the world. The fairytale story fascinates children and adults, opera novices and opera connoisseurs alike. The viewer falls in love with Tamino in Pamina's portrait, is full of eager anticipation when the Queen of the Night in "Hell's Vengeance" brings out her top notes, listens to the soothing deep voice of Sarastro and sympathizes with the birdcatcher Papageno, who is after good food and a Companion longs. The Straubing theater man Emanuel Schikaneder wrote a humorous and imaginative story that Mozart refined with music in which highly dramatic arias and folk-song chants merge into noble simplicity. The eponymous Magic Flute is a reference to the powerful art of seduction that only music is capable of.