Die Zauberflote (Mikhailovsky Theatre, opera) - 25 March 2025 at 19:00
Genre: Opera | Language: German | Age restriction: 12+ | Length: 2 hours 30 minutes | Intermissions: 2 | Opening night: 22 March 2016
Featured in: Mikhailovsky (ex. Mussorgsky) Theatre March 2025 | Opera in St.Petersburg in March 2025 | Opera in Mikhailovsky (ex. Mussorgsky) Theatre in March 2025
Credits
Libretto by Emanuel SchikanederOriginal staging, sets, costumes and lighting: Pet Halmen
Staging by Éric Vigié
Stage Director’s Assistants: Yulia Prokhorova, Elena Piskunova, Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny
Musical Director of the production: Mikhail Tatarnikov
Conductor’s Assistant: Igor Tomashevsky
Collaboration between the Mikhailovsky Theatre and the Opéra de Lausanne under the patronage of André and Rosalie Hoffmann
Artists
Conductor — Igor TomashevskyDescription
Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte will be performed on the Mikhailovsky’s stage in a version first seen at the Opéra de Lausanne in 2010. The well-known German stage designer and director Pet Halmen decided to shift the opera’s setting to the Duchess Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, home to a priceless collection of rare books and librettos. And although the idea for this arose following a terrible fire that broke out at the library in 2004, destroying most of the rare volumes stored there, many critics in Europe deemed the production to be one of the most vivacious and harmonious interpretations of Die Zauberflöte in the modern era.
