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Join us as we usher in a new season and celebrate opera, music, the marvel of the human voice, creativity, and the many-layered artistry of a genre that delights and stirs all the senses.

Iván Fischer has renewed The Magic Flute. Mozart’s opera transports us into a world of enchantment, allowing an escape from the daily grind. Join us for tasty hors d'oeuvres before the curtain rises, served in an atmosphere created by fashion designer Eszter Cselényi and unmistakably evoking the world of Mozart himself. After the opera, guests of the BFO and Müpa Budapest are invited to an informal gathering to meet the artists and creators participating in the performance. Selfies allowed! Gone will be the distance between stage and audience, and art will become tangible. An evening of connections and once-in-a-lifetime encounters.

Opera and Reception: Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night

Müpa Budapest

Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night – Reception

The rays of sun chase night away.” If there is an opera for everyone, an opera about the very essence of life, it’s The Magic Flute. For the first time since 2015, Iván Fischer will once again bring to the stage Mozart’s philosophical tale, where good and bad, light and darkness, right and wrong, courage and fear, wisdom and superstition, vengeance and mercy are juxtaposed. The opera, which is Mozart’s last work for the stage, is an initiation ceremony and a moral tale about the journey to adulthood. “It’s an inscrutable work of magical power,” says Fischer, who is particularly awed by the opera’s optimism, humor, playfulness, fairy tale-like quality, deep humanism, or, in a single word, complexity. The international cast includes Mozart specialists from the world’s leading opera houses, several of whom are already familiar to the BFO’s audiences.

Fischer and The Magic Flute

A bet is made and Don Alfonso hires Despina, Fiordiligi and Dorabella's employee, to help with the intrigue. In disguise, the men finally succeed in seducing each other's fiancée. After Don Alfonso and Despina have broken up the intrigue, it is left to the four young lovers to deal with the consequences of the story.

Così fan tutte

Vienna State Opera

The works in this concert have a common theme, namely our connection with nature. Mahler’s settings of the poems from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn« refract life and nature through a melancholic lens. They incorporate folk tunes to paint a picture of a world in which human experience is closely interwoven with nature. Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is also more than just a musical depiction of nature. While the »Pastoral« gives us idyllic landscapes, babbling brooks and cheerful village festivities, for Beethoven these are not merely a backdrop but rather reflect the feelings of the observer, thereby creating a unique connection between man and nature.

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Moderated Special Concert »Natur pur!« in the Kulturpalast

Palace of Culture

“The rays of sun chase night away.” If there is an opera for everyone, an opera about the very essence of life, it’s The Magic Flute. For the first time since 2015, Iván Fischer will once again bring to the stage Mozart’s philosophical tale, where good and bad, light and darkness, right and wrong, courage and fear, wisdom and superstition, vengeance and mercy are juxtaposed. The opera, which is Mozart’s last work for the stage, is an initiation ceremony and a moral tale about the journey to adulthood. “It’s an inscrutable work of magical power,” says Fischer, who is particularly awed by the opera’s optimism, humor, playfulness, fairy tale-like quality, deep humanism, or, in a single word, complexity. The international cast includes Mozart specialists from the world’s leading opera houses, several of whom are already familiar to the BFO’s audiences.

“The Magic Flute is a childhood experience for everyone that accompanies them throughout their lives. Because this opera speaks to both children and adults.” Fischer shares his own experiences, as he and his brother participated in a production of the work held in the Opera House as children. Much later, the Festival Orchestra’s opera performances also traditionally began with a semi-staged production of The Magic Flute at the Liszt Academy in the early 1990s.

Winterfestspiele Baden-Baden: Fischer and Die Zauberflöte

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

“The rays of sun chase night away.” If there is an opera for everyone, an opera about the very essence of life, it’s The Magic Flute. For the first time since 2015, Iván Fischer will once again bring to the stage Mozart’s philosophical tale, where good and bad, light and darkness, right and wrong, courage and fear, wisdom and superstition, vengeance and mercy are juxtaposed. The opera, which is Mozart’s last work for the stage, is an initiation ceremony and a moral tale about the journey to adulthood. “It’s an inscrutable work of magical power,” says Fischer, who is particularly awed by the opera’s optimism, humor, playfulness, fairy tale-like quality, deep humanism, or, in a single word, complexity. The international cast includes Mozart specialists from the world’s leading opera houses, several of whom are already familiar to the BFO’s audiences.

Vicenza Opera Festival: Fischer and The Magic Flute

Teatro Olimpico

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra present Mozart's Magic Flute in a semi-staged format which Fischer developed at his opera festival in Vicenza. He traveled to the city to work on his "third way": a new unity of sound and directing where the ear guides the body. After last year’s Don Giovanni, Fischer is now conducting an opera at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden for the second time.

Baritone

Markus Werba

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 23 - Dec 20, 2026

Winterfestspiele Baden-Baden: Fischer and Die Zauberflöte · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Oct 25 - Dec 20, 2026

Vicenza Opera Festival: Fischer and The Magic Flute · Budapest Festival Orchestra

18 - 20 Dec, 2026

The Magic Flute · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

5 - 13 Mar, 2027

Lucia di Lammermoor · Teatro Massimo

16 - 23 May, 2027

Falstaff · Teatro Massimo

Past events

Sep 9, 2026

Opera and Reception: Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Sep 9, 2026

Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night – Reception · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Guglielmo in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Wiener Staatsoper

Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti

Teatro Massimo

Ford in Falstaff by Verdi

Teatro Massimo

Singer in Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Papageno in The Magic Flute by Mozart

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Singer in Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Papageno in The Magic Flute, K. 620 by Mozart

Budapest Festival Orchestra

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Baritone

Markus Werba

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 23 - Dec 20, 2026

Winterfestspiele Baden-Baden: Fischer and Die Zauberflöte · Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

Oct 25 - Dec 20, 2026

Vicenza Opera Festival: Fischer and The Magic Flute · Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

18 - 20 Dec, 2026

The Magic Flute · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

5 - 13 Mar, 2027

Lucia di Lammermoor · Teatro Massimo

16 - 23 May, 2027

Falstaff · Teatro Massimo

Past events

Sep 9, 2026

Opera and Reception: Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night · Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

Sep 9, 2026

Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night – Reception · Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Guglielmo in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Wiener Staatsoper

Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti

Teatro Massimo

Ford in Falstaff by Verdi

Teatro Massimo

Singer in Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Papageno in The Magic Flute by Mozart

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Singer in Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Papageno in The Magic Flute, K. 620 by Mozart

Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

About

Markus Werba hasn't added a bio

Winterfestspiele Baden-Baden: Fischer and Die Zauberflöte · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Vicenza Opera Festival: Fischer and The Magic Flute · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Opera and Reception: Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Celebration in the Realm of the Queen of the Night – Reception · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Budapest Festival Orchestra