Organization

Singer

Soprano

Petra Šimková

First lady

Tenor

Václav Cikánek

Monostastos

Erika Jarkovská

Papagena

Spoken

Tomáš Kyndl

First slave

Libor Novák

Second slave

Josef Šilhan

Conductor

Martin Leginus

Chorus master

Adolf Melichar

Bass

Oleg Korotkov

Sarastro

Martin Šrejma

Tamino

Jana Sibera

The Queen of the Night

Yukiko Šrejmová-Kinjo

Pamina

Baritone

Miloš Horák

Papageno

Jana Horáková Levicová

Second lady

Contralto

Jana Sýkorová

Third lady

Richard Hein

Stage director

Ladislav Štros

Set designer

Vladimír Nývlt

Costume designer

Josef Jelínek

Choreographer

Otto Šanda

Roman Vocel

Second armored man

Tomáš Kořínek

First priest

Ivo Hrachovec

Second priest

First armored man

National Theatre Prague

State Opera

Others

State Opera Chorus

Orchestra

State Opera Orchestra

German

Die Zauberflöte -  (The Magic Flute)

Prague

Czech Republic

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Die Zauberflöte Mozart

The Magic Flute

English

Czech

Approved

Mozart wrote Die Zauberflöte when he was 35 years of age. The piece was intended for the common people visiting the Theater an der Wien, where it premiered on 30 September 1791, a mere three months before the composer’s untimely death. The German libretto was penned by the actor, impresario and dramatist Emanuel Schikaneder, a friend of Mozart‘s. The creators drew upon the tradition of the old Viennese magic opera, in which alongside human characters appeared various supernatural beings and animals, and stage machinery effects were applied.

Die Zauberflöte has become the best-known example of this highly popular genre not only due to the fairy-tale story in which by means of a magic flute and his comical companion, Papageno, Prince Tamino seeks the way to Princess Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, but also thanks to the references to Masonic symbolism and, primarily, Mozart’s beguiling music, which warms the heart of audiences worldwide. A year after its premiere in Vienna, Die Zauberflöte was staged in Prague, at today’s Estates Theatre on 25 October 1792.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer