Overview
- The new Die Zauberflöte at the Haus für Mozart presents the opera as Mozart’s deathbed dream, overlaying biography on the stage action.
- Reviewers describe the visuals as museum-like and fault the direction for slack timing, diffuse dramaturgy and dialogue that slows the evening.
- Conductor Roberto González-Monjas and the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg win consistent praise for precision, lightness, color and well-judged tempos.
- The cast draws notice for individual strengths, including Theodore Platt (Papageno), Magnus Dietrich (Tamino), Emily Pogorelc (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night) and Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), with Paul Schweinester as Monostatos.
- Contemporary adjustments include inclusive wording in the Papageno–Pamina duet and a reworked portrayal and text for Monostatos to avoid racial stereotyping.