Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Emanuel Schikaneder

Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.

In German

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Casts

Conductor Alexander Soddy 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Alain Altinoglu 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Choreography Staff Beate Vollack   
Production August Everding   
Revival director Helmut Lehberger   
Set and Costumes Jürgen Rose   
Lighting Michael Bauer   
Chorus Sören Eckhoff   

Sarastro Stephen Milling 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Franz-Josef Selig 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Tamino Michael Schade 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Alek Shrader 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Sprecher Christian Rieger   
Königin der Nacht Kathleen Kim 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Ekaterina Lekhina 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Pamina Genia Kühmeier 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Eri Nakamura 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Erste Dame Ana Maria Labin 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Aga Mikolaj 2./4./7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Zweite Dame Angela Brower 19./23./25./29. Sep., 2./4. Dec. 2010  
Heike Grötzinger 7./11./14. Dec. 2010  
Dritte Dame Okka von der Damerau   
Drei Knaben Tölzer Knabenchor   
Papageno Nikolay Borchev   
Papagena Hanna-Elisabeth Müller   
Monostatos Ulrich Reß   
Erster Geharnischter / Zweiter Priester Kenneth Roberson   
Zweiter Geharnischter / Dritter Priester Christoph Stephinger   
Erster Priester Alfred Kuhn   
Vierter Priester Rüdiger Trebes   
Drei Sklaven Philipp Moschitz 19./23./25./29. Sep. 2010  
Walter von Hauff 
Thomas Weber 

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera