The Magic Flute

The Zauberflöte at the Vienna State Opera is characterized by Barbora Horáková's detailed, almost cinematic stage direction: The plot begins in a haunted house, which is discovered by the three boys. It is the dark but also magical world of the Queen of the Night into which the three boys are drawn and where Tamino also finds himself. The audience soon travels with the characters further and further into the real world - a coal cellar, a school class, a "gentlemen's club" where Sarastro tries to decide the future, Pamina's nursery - and back to the ever-changing room in the aforementioned haunted house..