The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tha Estates Theatre

Premiere: 21th March 2001

Musical arrangement: Jan Chalupecký
Conductor: Jan Chalupecký / David Švec
Director: David Radok
Stage design: Katarína Hollá / Tazeena Firth
Costumes: Katarína Hollá / Tazeena Firth
Chorus master: Pavel Vaněk
Choreography: Hakan Mayer
ChoirMaster of The Prague Phil. Children's Choir: Jiří Chvála

Sarastro - The Speaker: Miloslav Podskalský / Zdeněk Plech
Tamino: Jaroslav Březina / Aleš Briscein
The Queen of the Night: Jana Bernáthová / Martina Masaryková
Pamina: Alžběta Poláčková / Simona Houda-Šaturová
First Lady: Jitka Svobodová / Dana Burešová
Second Lady: Stanislava Jirků / Jitka Soběhartová
Third Lady: Lenka Šmídová / Eliška Weissová
Papageno: František Zahradníček / Jiří Hájek
Papagena: Martina Bauerová / Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo
Monostatos: Jan Ježek / Jiří Hruška
First Man in Armour: Jan Markvart / Vladimír Doležal
Second Man in Armour: Aleš Hendrych / František Zahradníček
First genius: Helena Vajdlová / Petra Pospíšilová / Eliška Soukupová
Second genius: Linda Abiševa / Veronika Kalátová
Third genius: Eva Chalupová / Veronika Pluhařová
First priest: Jan Šváb
Second priest: Tomáš Masák
Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the National Theatre Opera, Kühn's Children's Choir

An imaginative opera in which fairy-tale and comic elements meld with sage philosophy and symbolism of the mysterious Masonic order, of which Mozart himself was a member. Let yourselves be borne away by the story of Prince Tamino and Princess Pamina, who overcome a series of obstacles and tribulations en route to common happiness.

Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes

The opera is staged in Czech and Czech English and German subtitles are used in the performance.