Die Zauberflöte, Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele
What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies, lovers’ arias, showstopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales. W. A. Mozart’s opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed operas in the world. The production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dog-dragons, each of them more than twenty meters in height. “David Pountney finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding ‘The Magic Flute’.” (Tagesspiegel) “The ‘play on the lake’ in Bregenz takes the audience into a fantasy world.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)
Cast
- Alfred Reiter Sarastro
- Norman Reinhardt Tamino
- Ana Durlovski Königin der Nacht
- Bernarda Bobro Pamina
- Daniel Schmutzhard Pagageno
- Denise Beck Papagena
Make it a double feature
5h together
Die Zauberflöte, Bregenzer Festspiele
Notre-Dame de Paris
A close match in mood and era.
