The Magic Flute

Barrie Kosky’s The Magic Flute transports us into its own world of fantasy images. Tamino falls in love with a portrait of Pamina and sets out to rescue her.

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  – Jan Windszus Photography

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  – Jan Windszus Photography

With threatening dragons, charming pink elephants, dancing constellations, and flying butterfly boys, The Magic Flute is like a magical road movie on the way to true love.The Magic Flute offers more riddles and questions than answers. It’s not for nothing that this beloved opera’s titular heroine is a musical instrument: in addressing the essentials of human experience, before which both logic and reason must capitulate, only music can ultimately find the right language. Here, the British theatre troupe 1927 and Barrie Kosky use projected animations to retell Mozart’s classic as a living picture book, in a ‘deliciously absurd mix of silent film and cartoon’ [BERLINER MORGENPOST].

2 hr 45 min incl. intermission

Artists/Collaborators: 1927 (Konzeption), Paul Barritt (Animation), Esther Bialas (Bühnenbild und Kostüme), David Cavelius (Chöre), Barrie Kosky (Inszenierung), Diego Leetz (Licht), Ulrich Lenz (Dramaturgie), Esteban Muñoz Herrera (Spielleitung), Marit Strindlund (Musikalische Leitung), Penny Sofroniadou (Pamina), Caspar Singh (Tamino), Diana Schnürpel (Königin der Nacht), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Sarastro), Tom Erik Lie (Papageno), Philipp Meierhöfer (Papageno), Elisa Maayeshi (Papagena), Caspar Krieger (Monostatos), Mirka Wagner (Erste Dame), Karolina Gumos (Zweite Dame), Ulrike Helzel (Dritte Dame), Johannes Dunz (Erster Geharnischter), Jaewon Kwak (Zweiter Geharnischter), Solisten des Tölzer Knabenchores (Drei Knaben), Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin (Chor), Komparserie (Komparserie), Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

Koproduktion mit der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 17/June/2027 19:00 (5 more dates)
• Venue Komische Oper Berlin: Schillertheater - Großer Saal
• Address Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin-Charlottenburg