Zauberflöte

Mozart reloaded

Award-winning composer Frank Nimsgern has created a rousing musical together with director Benjamin Sahler and Aino Laos. After the acclaimed world premiere on our stage in 2024, The Magic Flute is now returning there. With grandiose modern songs and intelligent quotes from the famous opera, the revised production once again builds a bridge between the eras and connects people of all ages.

Known by young and old throughout the country

In 1791, shortly before his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created a masterpiece with The Magic Flute. The Queen of the Night's aria and the Birdcatcher's song are familiar even to those who have never seen the opera. It tells the story of the young Prince Tamino, who is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the mysterious Sarastro. Together with the bird-catcher Papageno, he sets off and soon has to face three difficult trials.

Frank Nimsgern has dressed this story in a modern musical guise with a great symphonic score and a wealth of new songs in a wide range of styles from rock to pop to Latin. Again and again interwoven with intelligently incorporated quotations from the famous opera. In Nimsgern's songs, harpsichord meets electric guitar, ballad meets rock song and Viennese classical music meets the 21st century.

A deep bow to Mozart

The passionate love story surprises with unexpected twists and turns and the familiar characters appear in a contemporary context. Themes such as emancipation, racism and patriarchy are questioned and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred. In addition to the music, an opulent set, colorful costumes and rousing choreography guide the audience through a magical labyrinth of love, betrayal and adventure.

Frank Nimsgern still has vivid memories of his first visit to The Magic Flute. The composer had long wanted to get closer to Mozart's masterpiece. He says: "The basis is the original, from which my cinematic, kaleidoscopically expanded head cinema develops. I have given each scene and each archaic character in this composition a new musical color and its own musical style spectrum. And when I quote Mozart here and there, it is with a deep bow."