Celebrate Mozart's 270th birthday with us with the world's most performed opera: Mozart's The Magic Flute , in a production by Rolando Villazón, with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the direction of its celebrated chief conductor Roberto González-Monjas and with a top-class ensemble of soloists.

Mozart: The Magic Flute K. 620

House for Mozart

The last hours of the singer Flora Tosca and artist Mario Cavaradossi's passionate love: they couldn’t escape the vortex of power and violence. Their attempts to break free from the unscrupulous Police Chief Scarpia’s system were in vain. The strength in Puccini’s opera lies in striking portrayals of extreme emotions, violence, jealousy and persecution. The composer decided on this work while watching a performance of Victorien Sardou’s play, with Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca. His music lives in the keenly sketched characters, their outpourings contrasting with lyrical moments. Director Andreas Kriegenburg homed in on their private lives, while liberating the characters from clichés: they could be people of today, broken by a brutal police state. Strong visual effects and detailed portraits of the three key protagonists turn his production into a study of the abuse of power and resistance.

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Tosca

Oper Frankfurt

According to his servant Leporello, Don Giovanni has already loved no fewer than 2,064 women; the number of those he has left with broken hearts cannot be any less. This masterpiece about the charming yet unscrupulous lothario Don Giovanni became (in the words of Richard Wagner) the „opera of all operas“, thanks to the inspired collaboration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. The work, which premiered in Prague in 1787, is more than just a tale of love and seduction, lust and immorality, rape, murder and revenge. Expressly called a „funny drama“ by Mozart, the narrative alternates between tragedy and comedy, between tales of sex-and-crime and theatrum mundi. Don Giovanni, with his passion for breaking rules and taboos, does not shy away from challenging the Dead and even Fate itself. In his staging for Dresden, Andreas Kriegenburg highlights the contemporary relevance of the characters’ endless greed for life, love and beauty.

Tanja Hofmann

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 21 - Mar 20, 2026

Don Giovanni · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

Jan 23 - Feb 1, 2026

Mozart: The Magic Flute K. 620 · Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Sep 5, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026

Tosca · Oper Frankfurt

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