Admin

Staatsoper Hamburg

Stage director

Jette Steckel

Set designer

Florian Lösche

Costume designer

Pauline Hüners

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+1)

Johannes Blum

Carl Hegemann

Video

Alexander Bunge

Lighting designer

Paulus Vogt

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Leo Hussain

Soprano

Aleksandra Olczyk

The Queen of the Night

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Claire Gascoin

Second lady

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Ida Aldrian

Third lady

Tenor (+3)

Peter Galliard

Monostastos

Soprano (+2)

Yeonjoo Katharina Jang

Papagena

Orchestra

Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

Hamburgische Staatsoper

Chorus

Hamburg State Opera Choir

Bass-baritone (+3)

Keith Klein

Second armored man

Tenor

Mzi Nodlayiya

First priest

First armored man

Children and youth choir of the Hamburg State Opera

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Luiz de Godoy

Eberhard Friedrich

Bass-baritone (+2)

David Minseok Kang

Speaker

Soprano (+1)

Adriana González

Pamina

Baritone (+9)

Benjamin Appl

Papageno

Aaron Godfrey-Mayes

Tamino

Hellen Kwon

First lady

Bass (+4)

Alexander Roslavets

Sarastro

David Fischer

Bass (+2)

Hubert Kowalczyk

Soprano (+4)

Olivia Boen

Baritone (+3)

Nicholas Mogg

Wendy Bryn Harmer

Chorusmaster (+1)

Christian Günther

Han Kim

Bass (+3)

Matteo Maria Ferretti

Soprano (+3)

Ivana Rusko

This opera is the world in a theatrical nutshell: it deals with growing older, with trials and tribulations, with intransparent decisions. One person searches for individuality, another is too lazy to do so. Others postulate that the community is the only adequate place for the individual. Power has either been legitimised by long tradition or usurped by new regimes. Values such as assimilation and loyalty are set against self-assertiveness and independence. There is loving and dreaming, cheating and trusting. Suicides are prevented, tests passed, adventures survived. Who is right? Who has been wronged? The world of the magic flute is opaque, and everyone is looking for a pathway: within it, into it or out of it. Who holds the reigns? Who can be trusted? Could it be music?

German