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Die Zauberflöte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

04
Fri
April
19:30 - 22:30
C prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
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Information about the work

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
First performed on 30. September, 1791 in Vienna
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 24. September, 1991

3 Stunden / Eine Pause

In deutscher Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln

Einführung: 45 Minuten vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Rang-Foyer rechts

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04
Fri
April
19:30 - 22:30
C prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
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About the work
It’s the most performed opera in the German-speaking region, an unusual – and masterly – blend of Viennese folk theatre and fairy tale, mythology and freemasonry mystique: Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE remains a puzzle to this day. Did Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder switch horses from the Queen of the Night to Sarastro half way through? Is the message not one of distrust towards a supposedly infallible priesthood and its simplistic good-versus-evil ideology? Are some Mozart experts right when they talk of a disconnect between text and music? Whatever the answer, it’s the music that allows us to relate to the story’s contradictions. Far from denouncing the characters, it confers an existentiality on their conflicts.

Tamino is rescued from a dragon by three mysterious women, who show him a picture of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, who has been kidnapped by Sarastro, high priest of the Temple of the Sun. Besotted with the picture, Tamino is instructed by the Queen to team up with Papageno to rescue her. For a talisman he is given a magic flute, Papageno some magic bells. When they fail to steal Pamina back, the three of them are subjected to a series of perilous ordeals. Firstly, the men must prove they can keep silent. With Tamino not speaking to her, Pamina is about to stab herself but is saved by the three boy spirits, who lead her to Tamino. The pair then pass the remaining ordeals by fire and water. Meanwhile Papageno has acquired a lady friend, with whom he dreams of living happily ever after. Tamino and Pamina are inducted into the brotherhood of the Enlightened and embrace the ideals of nature, wisdom and reason.


About the production
The Günter Krämer production focuses on the antithesis between two worlds, represented in THE MAGIC FLUTE by sun versus moon and dark versus light but also by the oppositions of nature versus culture and male versus female. These double-sided coins are visualised on stage as the contrast between black and white, neither of which – like Yin and Yang – can exist without the other. The fairy tale character of THE MAGIC FLUTE is conveyed with directorial exhilaration and a remarkable set design, which have helped to make the production an audience favourite over the last 30 years.

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06
DEC

Adventskalender in der Tischlerei: Das 6. Fensterchen

Heute in der Tischlerei: „Der Nikolaus kommt“
mit der Jungen Deutschen Oper, den Opern-Familien und Tobias Kehrer
17.00 Uhr / in der Tischlerei
Dauer: ca. 25 Minuten / Eintritt frei


Der Besuch des Nikolaus gehört fest in die Vorweihnachtszeit und ist auch als Teil des Adventskalenders der Deutschen Oper Berlin eine liebgewonnene Tradition, die jedes Jahr zahlreiche Kinder begeistert. Dieses Mal laden wir herzlich in die Tischlerei zu Erzählung und Musik ein. Mit der Jungen Deutschen Oper, unseren Opern-Familien und musikalischer Untermalung durch den Bass Tobias Kehrer, den einige kleinere und größere Opernfans als Sarastro bereits auf der großen Bühne erlebt haben dürften, können sie sich auf einen heimeligen Nachmittag im Bühnenbild unserer Neuproduktion IMMMERMEEEHR freuen. Selbstverständlich singen wir dann auch alle gemeinsam noch das ein oder andere Weihnachtslied und sicherlich hat unser Nikolaus auch einige Süßigkeiten mit sich.