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© PoehnThe Magic Flute
Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart State Opera Vienna - Wientickets available
The Magic Flute State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 19.May 2027 replace me !The young Prince Tamino is commissioned by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina – with whom he falls in love at the sight of a portrait – from the hands of Sarastro.
Together with Papageno, he sets off on his journey. In the course of his undertaking, Tamino recognizes Sarastro's kindness. He passes several tests and, together with Pamina, is allowed to take Sarastro's place as a reward. Papageno also finds a suitable partner: Papagena.
The Zauberflöte at the Vienna State Opera is characterized by Barbora Horáková's detailed, almost cinematic stage direction: The plot begins in a haunted house, which is discovered by the three boys. It is the dark but also magical world of the Queen of the Night into which the three boys are drawn and where Tamino also finds himself. The audience soon travels with the characters further and further into the real world - a coal cellar, a school class, a "gentlemen's club" where Sarastro tries to decide the future, Pamina's nursery - and back to the ever-changing room in the aforementioned haunted house..The Magic Flute – which, alongside La clemenza di Tito and the Requiem, ranks among the composer’s last great works – is a striking example of Mozart’s late style. Despite the complexity of the plot, the composer increasingly streamlines the musical structure, thereby getting to the very essence of the work. The Magic Flute, however, also draws on the juxtaposition and interplay of the various musical textures: Papageno is partly derived from the suburban theatre style (The Magic Flute was first performed at the Vienna Freihaus Theatre on the Wieden), whilst other characters in the work inhabit decidedly more ‘operatic’ spheres.Mozart's Zauberflöte, largely composed between spring and autumn 1791, was premiered at the Freihaustheater auf der Wieden in Vienna. The libretto for the opera was written by Emanuel Schikaneder, the impresario of the theater,
who also played the role of Papageno. In his Magic Flute libretto, Schikaneder was guided by the prevailing suburban theater custom, combining elements of various fairy tales with well-known musical theater material of his time. Thus individual
Influences from the intellectual world of the Freemasons, the Egyptian and the popular and mysterious can be found. The first performance of Die Zauberflöte in today's Vienna State Opera took place on September 1, 1869 - the opera had previously been considered for the opening of the opera house on May 25, 1869. Die Zauberflöte motifs can also be found in the decoration of the building - for example in the frescoes of the Schwind loggia.
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