PRAGUE - Mozart's opera legacy, still alive today, culminates in a work as entertaining as it is thoughtful, a fantastic spectacle as magical as the rite of initiation of the human spirit - it's all The Magic Flute. And you will find all this in Vladimír Morávek's production, which is full of colourful theatricality, thrilling atmosphere and mysterious symbols. There is something for everyone - big, small and, if they are not afraid, even quite small.
The Magic Flute wrote the thirty-five-year-old Mozart for a popular audience at the Theatre na Vídeňce, where its world premiere took place on 30 September 1791, just three months before the composer's untimely death. The German libretto was written by the actor, theatre entrepreneur and friend of Mozart Emanuel Schikaneder. The authors came out of the tradition of old Viennese magic opera, in which various fairy-tale creatures and animals performed alongside characters from the human world, and the effects of stage machinery also found their application.
The Magic Flute has become the most famous example of this popular genre not only thanks to the fairy tale story in which Prince Tamino, with the help of a magical flute and his comic companion Papageno, seeks the way to Princess Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, but also thanks to references to the mysterious Masonic symbolism and, above all, thanks to Mozart's enchanting music, which manages to win the heart of every spectator. The opera found its way to Prague a year after its premiere in Vienna and was first performed in the building of today's Estates Theatre on 25 October 1792.
WARNING: Fire effects are used in the performance.
Suitable for audiences aged 7 and up.
National Theatre Choir
National Theatre Orchestra
Kühn Children's Choir
Acrobatic group Long Vehicle Circus
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