DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

31 January 2025, Friday
Time 19:00
The Royal Theatre in the Old Orangery in the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

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Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is, on the one hand, a brilliant work in terms of music, drama, and expression, and on the other – a mystery full of riddles and hidden meanings. The opera, which was completed and had its premiere at the end of September 1791, several dozen days before the composer’s death, continues to delight and inspire successive generations of artists and concert-goers.

The libretto for the two-act singspiel was prepared by the actor and playwright Emanuel Schikaneder, who also played the role of Papageno during the Viennese premiere. The last one of Mozart’s operas immediately won the hearts of the audience and brought immense financial success. The use of Masonic symbolism and the imminent death of the composer meant the work was shrouded in an aura of mystery, and the interpreters of the Viennese master’s music competed to come up with more or less probable theories. In reality, however, the Masonic interpretation is only one of many possible; it remains a story about a journey, the fight between good and evil, the path to adulthood, striving for social harmony… These are, after all, universal themes, which Mozart embellishes with music that is extremely colorful and sometimes surprising.

MUSIC DIRECTOR DAWID RUNTZ
DIRECTOR ANDRZEJ KLIMCZAK
SET DESIGN AND COSTUMES MARLENA SKONECZKO
LIGHTING DESIGN MACIEJ IGIELSKI
CHORUS MASTER KAROL KNAPIŃSKI
CHOREOGRAPHY CONSULTANT JOANNA LICHOROWICZ-GREŚ
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR / II CONDUCTOR KAROL SZWECH
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
II ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
STAGE MANAGER WANDA KARPIŃSKA

CAST

SARASTRO  DARIUSZ GÓRSKI
TAMINO SYLWESTER SMULCZYŃSKI
NARRATOR / PRIEST III SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
PRIEST I / ARMED MAN II GRZEGORZ ŻOŁYNIAK
PRIEST II / ARMED MAN I JAKUB A. GRABOWSKI
THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT  KATARZYNA DRELICH
PAMINA JULIA PLIŚ
LADY I  GABRIELA KAMIŃSKA
LADY II ANNA WIERZBICKA
LADY III  DOROTA LACHOWICZ
PAPAGENO PAWEŁ MICHALCZUK
PAPAGENA  AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
MONOSTATOS LESZEK ŚWIDZIŃSKI
SPIRIT I JULITA MIROSŁAWSKA
SPIRIT II IWONA LUBOWICZ
SPIRIT III MARTA SCHNURA
DANCERS PATRYK GŁADYŚ, JOANNA LICHOROWICZ-GREŚ, KLAUDIA SZMYTKA, MARTA ŻABKA
MIME JERZY KLONOWSKI

THE CHORUS OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA

THE ORCHESTRA OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA

CONDUCTOR KAROL SZWECH


Duration: 2 h 50 min (with intermission)
The seats in the auditorium are not numbered.

Performance in the original language version.

PLEASE NOTE: the entrance to the Royal Theatre in Łazienki Park is located in Agrykola street.