Name: Die Zauberflöte
Start: 2000-12-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2001-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Tamino

Reinaldo Macias

Soprano

Elizabeth Magnuson

Pamina

Malin Hartelius

Martina Janková

Elena Mosuc

The Queen of the Night

Erika Miklósa

Baritone

Anton Scharinger

Papageno

Michael Volle

Bass

László Polgár

Sarastro

Conductor

Franz Welser-Möst

Stage director

Jonathan Miller

Opernhaus Zürich

Die Zauberflöte -  (The Magic Flute)

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Jonathan Miller’s Zurich Opera production of the strangest of Mozart’s operas sets the piece in the time of its creation: 1791, just after the French Revolution and the fall of the Bastille. Sarastro (Matti Salminen) personifies the ideals of the Enlightenment, Humanism and a new political order, while the Queen of the Night (Elena Mosuc) embodies the old régime. Tamino (Piotr Beczala) starts his journey to spiritual perfection in a library, lined with a double-storied wall of books. The cast also includes Jacob Will, Peter Keller, Malin Hartelius, Anton Scharinger and Julia Neumann. Franz Welser-Möst conducts.

Die Zauberflöte Mozart

The Magic Flute

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading