Die Zauberflöte - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The famous musical fairy tale about loyalty and wisdom as it played out in Mozart's imagination

Approximate duration: 2 hours 45 minutes, 1 break 20 minutes

In German, subtitles in Czech, English

National Theater Choir
National Theater Orchestra
Long Vehicle Circus

Mozart wrote The Magic Flute at the age of 35. The play was intended for ordinary visitors to the Theater an der Wien, where it premiered on September 30, 1791, just three months before the composer's untimely death. The German libretto was written by the actor, impresario and playwright Emanuel Schikaneder, who was a friend of Mozart's. The creators went back to the tradition of the old Viennese magic opera, in which various supernatural beings and animals appeared alongside human characters and effects from stage machines were used.

The Magic Flute has become the best-known example of this extremely popular genre not only because of the fairytale story in which Prince Tamino, with a magic flute and his comical companion Papageno, seeks the way to Princess Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, but also thanks to the references to Masonic symbolism and above all Mozart's beguiling music, which warms the hearts of audiences worldwide. A year after its premiere in Vienna, The Magic Flute was performed on October 25, 1792 in what is now the Estates Theater in Prague.



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