Fischer and The Magic Flute

Samantha Gaul (Pamina)
Julian Prégardien (Tamino)
Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro)
Alina Wunderlin (Queen of the Night)
Sarah Maria Sun (Papagena)
Markus Werba (Papageno)
Mirella Hagen (First Lady)
Olivia Vermeulen (Second Lady)
Maria Seidler (Third Lady)
Stuart Patterson (Monostatos)
Peter Harvey (Speaker / Second Priest / Second Armoured Man)

Conductor and director: Iván Fischer

“The rays of sun chase night away.” If there is an opera for everyone, an opera about the very essence of life, it’s The Magic Flute. For the first time since 2015, Iván Fischer will once again bring to the stage Mozart’s philosophical tale, where good and bad, light and darkness, right and wrong, courage and fear, wisdom and superstition, vengeance and mercy are juxtaposed. The opera, which is Mozart’s last work for the stage, is an initiation ceremony and a moral tale about the journey to adulthood. “It’s an inscrutable work of magical power,” says Fischer, who is particularly awed by the opera’s optimism, humor, playfulness, fairy tale-like quality, deep humanism, or, in a single word, complexity. The international cast includes Mozart specialists from the world’s leading opera houses, several of whom are already familiar to the BFO’s audiences.