Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute

What is the mystery of this Mozart opera and what has made it appeal to audiences of all ages for more than two centuries? The Magic Flute is not only one of the most performed operatic works but also a work about which many treatises, reflections and books have been written.

Tamino, on his journey to find Pamina, also seeks truth and guidance in a complex world of symbols at the intersection of fairy tale and mystery. Mozart and librettist Emanuel Schikaneder have created in the combination of music and text a contradictory world of good and evil, the sublime and the folk, mirth and sorrow, spectacle and mystery. At the time of the first performance of The Magic Flute in 1791, there was a prevailing hope and euphoria about the ideas of freedom and equality represented by the Great French Revolution and the Enlightenment; today, 231 years later, there is rather a certain disillusionment and a sense of threat to our fragile world.

The common desire of man then and now is the search for an ideal social order and the longing for love, freedom and understanding, which brings Mozart's last operatic work closer to adult and younger audiences alike.

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