New production on period instruments. Co-production Bremen’s Festival (Germany)

After having conducted, Idomeneo, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, with the phenomenal success that we know, Jérémie Rhorer conducts, in Beaune, The Magic Flute. The most popular and marvelous opera written by Mozart, the unrivalled magician. The opera is based on a masterful libretto of Mozart’s friend Schikaneder, librettist but also initiator of the role of Papageno. Created two months before his death, the Magic Flute is a magical fairy tale dealing with the elevation by wisdom, love and goodness of the human being to a higher morality corresponding to the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, the Aufklärung of rationalism. Tamino, a young prince, and Papageno, a fellow bird-catcher, are looking for Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, abducted by the mage Sarastro who holds her captive. Thanks to an enchanted flute and a magic chime, Tamino and Papageno find Pamina. Since the beginning “The Magic Flute” was a real success. As shown in the letter from Goethe’s mother to the poet in November 1793: “the opera was given 18 times and the theatre was sold out each time. Nobody wants anyone to say that he/she did not see it…”. The opera did not take long to conquer all the stages of the world, with performances in Leipzig, Warsaw, Munich, Hamburg… At the moment Mozart leaves one world to enter another: the music of the Magic Flute marks the beginning of the 19th century.