Three and a half hours of Mozart, magic, and seriously unhinged moms.
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems.
Production
McVicar's Egyptian-masonic sets are gloriously extra.
Acting
Lewek's Queen of the Night: glass-shattering villainy.
Score
Mozart wrote this for brain chemistry manipulation.
Director
David McVicar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mozart wrote the Queen's famous 'Der Hölle Rache' for his sister-in-law, who hated him. The revenge aria became her curse on him.
The opera's Masonic symbolism was so blatant that 18th-century audiences recognized the rituals — and censors often cut them.
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