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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
- Opera in two acts, in German
- Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
- Time: timeless mythical level
- Place: the forest ruled by the Queen of the Night, and the Temple of Wisdom ruled by Sarastro
The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for an 1815 production.
- Premieres in different countries
- Austria: 30 September 1791, World Premiere at Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, conducted by the composer, just two months before the composer's premature death. in 1801 Schikaneder had produced 223 performances.
- Czech: September 21, 1792, Prague
- Austria: 1793 in Graz, and Linz
- Germany; 1793 in Augsburg, Regensburg, Leipzig, Passau, Munich, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, and Hamburg
- Hungary: 1793 in Pest
- Poland: 1793 in Warsaw
- Germany: 1794 at National Theater in Mannheim. Set design by Giulio III Quaglio and Giuseppe / Joseph Quaglio
- Germany: 16 Jan 1794 Johann Goethe's production at the Weimar Court Theater. Goethe produced c. 100 performances.
- France: 1801 at Paris Opera
- Sweden: 30 May 1812 at Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm
- Germany: 1816, Berlin. Karl Friedrich Schinkel created twelve fantastic stage sets.
- Finland: 1840–1843, Helsinki, Philip Hornicke and Joseph Reitmeyer Company
- France: 1865 at Théâtre lyrique du Châtelet, Paris
- Finland: Dec 1877 at the Finnish Opera, Helsinki, with Emmy Achté as Pamina and Naëmi Starck as the Queen of the Night
- Sweden: 1974-1975 Ingmar Bergman directed his film Trollflöjten at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm.
- UK: 2006, reinterpretation in English against the backdrop of WW1, director Kenneth Branagh
- Switzerland: March 1, 2007 at Zürich Opera House. Martin Kušej staged a modern version with Jonas Kaufmann as Tamino, Julia Kleiter as Pamina, Ruben Drole as Papageno, Elena Moșuc as Queen of the Night and Matti Salminen as Sarastro and under the musical direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Arrival of Sarastro on a chariot pulled by lions, from a 1793 production in Brno. Pamina appears at left, Papageno at right. In the background are the temples of Wisdom, Reason, and Nature.
- Roles
- Sarastro, Prince, and High Priest of the Temples of Wisdom, Reason, and Nature (first an evil wizard, then a virtuous sage), bass, basso-profundo
- Tamino, a Prince lost in a distant land, tenor
- Benedikt Emanuel Schack (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Arvid Fredrik Ödmann
- Jean-Alexandre Talazac
- Julius Patzak
- Anton Dermota
- Rudolf Schock
- Nicolai Gedda
- Fritz Wunderlich
- Peter Schreier
- Speaker of the temple, bass / bass-baritone
- Kostas Damian Winter (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Hans Hotter
- Kim Borg
- Jorma Hynninen
- First priest, tenor
- Urban Schikaneder (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Second priest, bass
- Johann Michael Kistler (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Third priest, tenor, speaking role
- Christian Franz? Moll, bass (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- The Queen of the Night, ruler of the forest, Pamina's mother, coloratura soprano
- Pamina, Princess, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, Tamino's love, soprano
- First lady, soprano
- Johanna? Klöpfer (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Sena Jurinac
- Dame Joan Alston Sutherland
- Montserrat Caballé
- Second lady, soprano
- Antonie? Hofmann (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Christa Deiber
- Third lady, soprano / mezzo-soprano
- Elisabeth Schack (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Marga Anna Johanna Egel
- Papageno, the birdcatcher, baritone
- Emanuel Schikaneder (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Alfred Poell
- Karl August Julius Schmitt-Walter
- Giuseppe Taddei
- Georg Ots
- Geraint Llewellyn Evans
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Jorma Hynninen
- Papagena, Papageno's love, soprano
- Barbara Gerl (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Alice Anne-Elisa Ducasse
- Elisabeth Schumann
- Dora Komar
- Graziella Sciutti
- Monostatos, a blackamoor and chief of the slaves, tenor
- Johann Joseph Nouseul (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- First armoured man, tenor
- Johann Michael Kistler (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Second armoured man, bass
- Christian Franz? Moll (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Kim Borg
- Martti Talvela
- Jerker Arvidsson
- Aage Haugland
- First child-spirit, soprano
- Anna Schikaneder, soprano (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Elisabeth Schumann
- Second child-spirit, alto
- Anselm Handelgruber (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Third child-spirit, mezzo-soprano
- Franz Anton Maurer (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Three slaves, 2 tenors, bass, speaking roles
- Karl Ludwig Giesecke, aka Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Wilhelm? Frasel (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Johann Nikolaus Starke (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Priests, women, people, slaves, chorus
- Scenographers
- Costume designors
- Stage directors
- Ingmar Bergman (stage and film direction in 1975 at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre)
- August Everding (1973-2014 Savonlinna Opera Festival; 1983 Bavarian State Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch)
- Kenneth Branagh (UK 2006, reinterpretation in English against the backdrop of WW1)
- Conductors
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (World Premiere on 30 Sept 1791)
- Arturo Toscanini
- Bruno Walter
- Thomas Beecham
- Otto Klemperer
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Erich Kleiber
- Karl August Leopold Boehm
- George Szell
- Josef Alois Krips
- Herbert von Karajan
- Joseph Keilberth
- Georg Solti
- Ferenc Károly Fricsay
- Eric Ericson (1918-2013)
- Otmar Suitner
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Charles Mackerras
- Colin Davis
- Bernard Johan Herman Haitink, CH KBE
- István Kertész
- Graf Johann Nikolaus* de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt
- Claudio Abbado
- Arnold Otto Natanael Östman
- Jesús López Cobos
- Riccardo Muti
- James Lawrence Levine
- Gianluigi Gelmetti