The Magic flute (Salzburg)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s timeless masterpiece at the Salzburg Festival is always an event! The young American stage director Lydia Steier gave her Salzburg Festival debut with a fresh take on the most beloved opera of all time. She introduces the role of the grandfather, a narrator reading the opera like a fairy tale to his three grandchildren. This ‘trick’ in combination with the gigantic moveable sets, which take up the entire vast stage of the Großes Festspielhaus allows new views on Mozart’s magical opera, with its different worlds, here set in the bourgeois Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century.