What begins like a fairytale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment juxtaposes birdcatcher charm with queenly vengeance and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies lovers arias showstopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales W A Mozarts opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed operas in the world The production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dogdragons each of them more than twenty meters in height David Pountney finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding The Magic Flute Tagesspiegel The play on the lake in Bregenz takes the audience into a fantasy world Salzburger Nachrichten
