The Magic Flute Opera

The famous musical fairy tale of perseverance, loyalty and wisdom as it could have been played out in Mozart’s imagination.

The Magic Flute was written by the thirty-five-year-old Mozart for a popular audience at the Wiener Theater, where it received its world premiere on 30 September 1791, just three months before the composer’s untimely death. The German libretto was written by actor, theatre entrepreneur and Mozart’s friend Emanuel Schikaneder. The authors drew on the tradition of the old Viennese magic opera, in which various fairy-tale creatures and animals appeared alongside characters from the human world, and the effects of stage machinery also found their place.

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 magic 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. And what is a great part of this theater’s history, you can experience it again this month, in the same place. Do not hesitate to come and see this cultural gem in Prague!

National Theatre Choir and Orchestra
Long Vehicle Circus Acrobatic Group

Dates:
September 4, 2021
September 14, 2021
October 3, 2021
November 7, 2021
December 2, 2021
December 9, 2021
December 26, 2021

With English subtitles.

Place: The Estates Theater, Stavovské divadlo, Železná, Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Date: from Saturday, September 4, to Sunday, December 26, 2021
Time: from 7 PM to 10 PM
Price: 250-1290 CZK
Contact: +420 224 901 800 / info@narodni-divadlo.cz

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