Theatre & Stage
The Magic Flute
Sunday, 18/01/2026 / 05:00 PM - 12:00 AM / Ernst Barlach Theater
Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Harztheater / Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Musical direction: Harutyun Muradyan
Staging: Nina Kühner
Stage design: Tom Grasshof
The Magic Flute - an opera for the people. To be successful, "you have to write things that are so understandable that a hackney carriage driver can sing them", Mozart once said. But even the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world, the multi-layered masterpiece in the unusual mixture of Viennese folk theater and Masonic mystery, of fairy tales and myths, still puzzles us today: Is the Queen of the Night perhaps more than just a goddess of revenge? Should we not be suspicious of Sarastro's ideologized priestly world, which divides the world into good and evil? Nevertheless, it is precisely the music that elevates the contradictions of the plot to a worldly level and lends its conflicts an existential dimension.
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