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Die ZauberflöteKids event

Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo)Železná, Staré Město, Prague, Central Bohemian Region, 110 00, Czech Republic
Dates/times in Prague time zone
Sunday 07 September 202517:00
Friday 19 September 202519:00
Tuesday 23 September 202519:00
Saturday 04 October 202518:00
Saturday 18 October 202518:00
Monday 03 November 202519:00
Monday 17 November 202519:00
Wednesday 03 December 202519:00
Sunday 18 January 202617:00
Sunday 08 March 202614:00
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Performers
Prague National Theatre Opera
Jaroslav KyzlinkConductor
Zdeněk KlaudaConductor
Vladimír MorávekDirector
Miroslav HuptychSet Designer
Tomáš KyptaCostume Designer
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Prague National Theatre Chorus
Martin OndrušSet Designer
Beno BlachutDramaturgy
Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir
Lukáš KozubíkChoirmaster / chorus director
Ondřej MatajActorMozart
Petr NekoranecTenorTamino
Daniel MatoušekTenorTamino
Martin ŠrejmaTenorTamino
Yukiko KinjoSopranoPamina
Vera TalerkoSopranoPamina
Markéta KlaudováSopranoPamina
Lada BočkováSopranoPamina
Lucie KaňkováSopranoQueen of the Night
Jiří BrücklerBaritonePapageno
Lukáš BařákBass-baritonePapageno
Jiří HájekBaritonePapageno
Michal MarholdBaritonePapageno
Jiří SulženkoBassSarastro
Jan ŠťávaBassSarastro
Pavel ŠvingrBassSarastro
Barbora PernáSopranoFirst Lady
Tamara MorozováSopranoFirst Lady
Stanislava JirkůMezzo-sopranoSecond Lady
Michaela ZajmiMezzo-sopranoSecond Lady
Václava Krejčí HouskováMezzo-sopranoThird Lady
Kateřina JalovcováMezzo-sopranoThird Lady
Jana SýkorováMezzo-sopranoThird Lady
Lenka PavlovičSopranoPapagena
Eliška MinářováSopranoPapagena
Zuzana KopřivováSopranoPapagena
Ondřej KoplíkTenorMonostatos
Josef MoravecTenorMonostatos
Aleš VoráčekTenorMonostatos
Jan Maria HájekTenorFirst Armoured Man
Vjacseszláv KorszákTenorFirst Armoured Man
Raman HasymauTenorFirst Armoured Man
Roman VocelBassSecond Armoured Man
Ivo HrachovecBassSecond Armoured Man

Mozart’s illustrious operatic oeuvre is rounded off by a work providing both copious entertainment and food for thought, affording a fantastic spectacle and presenting a magical ritual of initiation of the human spirit. All that is encompassed in Die Zauberflöte, and all that can be found in Vladimír Morávek’s colourful production, featuring a thrilling atmosphere and teeming with mysterious symbols. There is something for everyone – adults and children, including, if fear hasn’t consumed them, the very youngest.

Mozart wrote Die Zauberflöte when he was 35 years of age. The piece was intended for the common people visiting the Theater an der Wien, where it premiered on 30 September 1791, a mere three months before the composer’s untimely death. The German libretto was penned by the actor, impresario and dramatist Emanuel Schikaneder, a friend of Mozart‘s. The creators drew upon the tradition of the old Viennese magic opera, in which alongside human characters appeared various supernatural beings and animals, and stage machinery effects were applied.

Die Zauberflöte has become the best-known example of this highly popular genre not only due to the fairy-tale story in which by means of a magic flute and his comical companion, Papageno, Prince Tamino seeks the way to Princess Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, but also thanks to the references to Masonic symbolism and, primarily, Mozart’s beguiling music, which warms the heart of audiences worldwide. A year after its premiere in Vienna, Die Zauberflöte was staged in Prague, at today’s Estates Theatre on 25 October 1792.

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