Oper
Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Information
Grand Opera in two acts | Text by Emanuel Schikaneder
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Grand Opera in two acts | Text by Emanuel Schikaneder | Playing time ca. 3 hours | One intermission
This delightful mélange of tragic opera, mysterious magic game, and droll popular theater defies all attempts at classification. Mozart’s last work for the stage is at once a fairy tale and theater for the ages, written in a world on the cusp of historic and social upheaval. The opera was premiered in 1791, when Europe was already beginning the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. The experiences of the French Revolution are reflected here, as is the growing artistic interest in the darker sides of humankind, as well as the suppressed and the irrational. Like two sides of one coin, the Queen of the Night’s and Sarastro’s two opposing spheres of power are pitted against one another. Sarastro has kidnapped Pamina, the Queen’s daughter, in order to instruct and raise her according to his philosophy. The Queen sends Prince Tamino and the naïve bird catcher Papageno on a mission to Sarastro’s kingdom to find her beloved daughter. A magic flute and a glockenspiel are their only weapons against deadly perils.
Cast
Direction
Musikalische Leitung Christoph Gedschold, Inszenierung, Licht Ralf Nürnberger, Bühne Yadegar Asisi, Kostüme Claudia Rühle, Einstudierung Chor Thomas Eitler-de Lint, Opernchor, Gewandhausorchester
Cast members
- Königin der Nacht Olga Jelínková
- Pamina Olena Tokar
- Erste Dame Magdalena Hinterdobler
- Erste Dame Gal James
- Zweite Dame Kathrin Göring
- Zweite Dame Sandra Maxheimer
- Dritte Dame Christiane Döcker
- Dritte Dame Sandra Janke
- Papagena N.N.
- 1. Knabe Kamila Dziadko
- 2. Knabe Dorota Bronikowska
- 3. Knabe Anna Kristina Michelsen
- Tamino Matthias Stier
- Tamino Patrick Vogel
- Papageno Jonathan Michie
- Papageno Franz Xaver Schlecht
- Sarastro Sejong Chang
- Sarastro Randall Jakobsh
- Monostatos Dan Karlström
- Monostatos Martin Petzold
- Sprecher Tuomas Pursio
- Ein Priester Hunyoung Choi
- Ein Priester Máté Gál
- Erster geharnischter Mann Alvaro Zambrano
- Zweiter geharnischter Mann Jean-Baptiste Mouret
- Erster Sklave Michael Chu
- Erster Sklave Tino Hölzel
- Zweiter Sklave Ivo Spaček
- Dritter Sklave Andreas Hanke
- Dritter Sklave Andreas Scholz