Libretto Emanuel Schikaneder
Conductors Vladimir Kranjčević, Josip Šego
Director Georgij Paro
Set Designer Dinka Jeričević
Costume Designer Zlatko Bourek
Choreographer and Assistant Director Miljenko Vikić
Quire Conductor Ivan Josip Skender
Light Designer Vladimir Kazda
Video Projection Designer David Flaten
Language Advisor Helena Lucić
Premiere March 23, 1996
Renewal December 22, 2005
Should we consider The Magic Flute a fairy-tale or an allegory? Or is it only a secret testimony of the freemasons? There is probably no other opera which offers the possibility of so many different interpretations, which is so simple and at the same time more complex than any other opera work. The Magic Flute speaks about the conflict between good and evil, about the power of music, and above all about the superior power of love. Goethe thought there was a very complex and complicated way to approach opera, but that for the majority of people opera was a simple entertainment. The kingdoms of the night and of the sun, the mysteries, the initiations, the wisdom, the love and the temptations... all of them present in their universality and with the help of the enchanting gracefulness and music soul, expand the imagination and warm the heart. (Hegel). The Magic Flute directed by Georgij Paro and dedicated to the great Ingmar Bergman, has been attracting the attention of all generations of viewers for more than a decade.
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