Mozart’s enchanting fairytale The Magic Flute returns to the Staatsoper in Vienna for the festive season.
With heros and heroines, villains and comic characters, Mozart’s final opera is one of his most beloved works.
French tenor Benjamin Bernheim plays prince Tamino. For him, The Magic Flute is a coming-of-age tale.
“It is a very tender way of looking at passing from one stage of someone’s life to another. Whether it’s Papageno, Tamino, Pamina; they all learn something.
“There are some things in The Magic Flute which are really quite brutal – racism and sexism are very, very present.
“In all Mozart’s operas there are problems. And, at the end of the opera, there is forgiveness, unions between people, between characters. The Magic Flute is timeless and I think will remain so for 100 or 200 years.”
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