Die Zauberflöte

"Alexander Busche directs with light hands (...), always surprising with new ideas for movement and comic situations. Old Vienna sends its regards. A Brandenburg Mozart of the unexpected extra class." (Das Opernglas)

A man in a bird costume, a dazzlingly shrill Queen of the Night, her daughter in the clutches of a villain who is only a villain from the mother's point of view, a prince who is declared virtuous due to numerous trials and thus saves the queen's daughter, three ladies, three boys, a flute, a glockenspiel: all this is "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And all this has made this work the most performed and best-known opera in the world.
But what is behind it all? And how can all this noise about the supposed nothingness be interpreted and interpreted meaningfully in the end?