Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the image of Pamina he is sent into a varied and contradictory way of initiation. Accompanied by a magic flute and three boys, who are supposed to protect him, he walks between life and perceived death. Combined with the search for love, this fine line is represented by Papageno’s pragmatic way of living. Tamino is confused with the extreme emotional world of the Queen of the Night and Sarastro's virtuous brotherhood. Led by Pamina – Tamino finds his way into manhood, but at the price of the “star-flaming” queen being shattered.
The play is characterized by symbolism and various motifs by using spectacular means of theater. When it changes its perspective in the middle of the story it also reflects the period of unrest during its composition. As the "puzzle of the dialectic of enlightenment and demagoguery” (Ivan Nagel), as “a mirror of society between revolution and restoration and uncompromising exposure of the contradictions of life”, "with a critical potential of being utopia’’ (Wolfgang Willaschek) or " mixtum compositum of humanist manifesto and machine comedy united by music” (Stefan Kunze) Mozart's Magic Flute continues to be a challenge for new scenic interpretation.
The new production Die Zauberflöte is kindly supported by FUCHS PETROLUB AG and Dr. Manfred und Lilo Fuchs
The play is characterized by symbolism and various motifs by using spectacular means of theater. When it changes its perspective in the middle of the story it also reflects the period of unrest during its composition. As the "puzzle of the dialectic of enlightenment and demagoguery” (Ivan Nagel), as “a mirror of society between revolution and restoration and uncompromising exposure of the contradictions of life”, "with a critical potential of being utopia’’ (Wolfgang Willaschek) or " mixtum compositum of humanist manifesto and machine comedy united by music” (Stefan Kunze) Mozart's Magic Flute continues to be a challenge for new scenic interpretation.
The new production Die Zauberflöte is kindly supported by FUCHS PETROLUB AG and Dr. Manfred und Lilo Fuchs
Cast and Creative Team for Die Zauberflöte at Nationaltheater Mannheim
Conductor Joseph Trafton
Directed by Joachim Schlömer
Stage design Jens Kilian
Costume design Dagmar Morell
Dramaturgy Regine Elzenheimer
Choir Tilman Michael
Cast:
Sarastro
Sung-Heon Ha / Marko Spehar
Tamino
Szabolcs Brickner / Juhan Tralla
Sprecher / Erster Priester
Thomas Berau / Radu Cojocariu
Zweiter Priester
David Lee
Königin der Nacht
Antje Bitterlich
Pamina
Astrid Kessler / Iris Kupke / Cornelia Ptassek
Erste Dame
Astrid Kessler / Iris Kupke / Ludmila Slepneva
Zweite Dame
Anne-Theresa Møller / Marie-Belle Sandis
Dritte Dame
Edna Prochnik / Andrea Szántó / Heike Wessels
Papageno
Bryan Boyce / Nikola Diski? / Lars Møller
Papagena
Tamara Banjesevic / Katharina Göres / Eunju Kwon
Monostatos
Uwe Eikötter / Benedikt Nawrath
Erster geharnischter Mann
Uwe Eikötter / István Kovácsházi / Jürgen Müller
Zweiter geharnischter Mann
Thomas Jesatko / Mihail Mihaylov
Directed by Joachim Schlömer
Stage design Jens Kilian
Costume design Dagmar Morell
Dramaturgy Regine Elzenheimer
Choir Tilman Michael
Cast:
Sarastro
Sung-Heon Ha / Marko Spehar
Tamino
Szabolcs Brickner / Juhan Tralla
Sprecher / Erster Priester
Thomas Berau / Radu Cojocariu
Zweiter Priester
David Lee
Königin der Nacht
Antje Bitterlich
Pamina
Astrid Kessler / Iris Kupke / Cornelia Ptassek
Erste Dame
Astrid Kessler / Iris Kupke / Ludmila Slepneva
Zweite Dame
Anne-Theresa Møller / Marie-Belle Sandis
Dritte Dame
Edna Prochnik / Andrea Szántó / Heike Wessels
Papageno
Bryan Boyce / Nikola Diski? / Lars Møller
Papagena
Tamara Banjesevic / Katharina Göres / Eunju Kwon
Monostatos
Uwe Eikötter / Benedikt Nawrath
Erster geharnischter Mann
Uwe Eikötter / István Kovácsházi / Jürgen Müller
Zweiter geharnischter Mann
Thomas Jesatko / Mihail Mihaylov
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