The Magic Flute by Mozart, Κυρ 27 Μαρ 2016, Aπό (2015/2016), Σκηνοθετημένο από Annette Wolf, αγωγός Florian Ludwig, Theater Hagen, Hagen, Germany

It begins like a fairy tale: a prince suddenly encounters a snake on his way through the mountains. Now the young hero's fight with the beast should follow, but Prince Tamino faints first. The Queen of the Night has her ladies rescue him – only to immediately entrust him with an even greater rescue task. Her daughter Pamina, she says, was kidnapped by Sarastro; if Tamino frees her, he shall have her as his wife. The bird catcher Papageno sets off with him. There are also three boys who rush to the rescue with good advice in all sorts of emergencies, and above all, of course, the magical musical instruments. The carillon and the magic flute help Papageno and Tamino pass the difficult tests that Sarastro puts on them. So the plot takes some amazing turns and when in the end Tamino is allowed to hug his Pamina and Papageno has also found his Papagena, any fairytale certainty about good and evil has been thoroughly mixed up. Mozart's Magic Flute, undisputedly the most popular work in the operatic repertoire, contains an almost unbelievable variety: it begins like a magic fairy tale, unfolds an exuberant imagination somewhere between Punch and Judy fun and a Freemason ritual and combines a teenage romance with the big questions of the Enlightenment. In addition, she enchants with a music that ranges from the abysmal lovesickness to the cheerfulness of the carillon, from theatrical thunder and bird catcher charm to the life-saving magic of the magic flute.