World premiere: 30 Sep 1791 Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Premiere of this production: 29 Dec 2022
Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes
World premiere: 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna Premiere at the Bolshoi (Kamenny) Theatre: 24 May 1818 (performed in Russian, translated by Alexander Scheller) Premiere at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre): 4 June 1966 (Walter Felsenstein’s edition, translated in Russian by Dzhemal Dalgat) Premiere of this production: 29 December 2022
CREDITS Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev Multimedia Director and Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky Stage Director: Ekaterina Malaya Set Designer: Pyotr Okunev Costume Designer: Martin Ruprecht Video production: Studio Show Consulting Musical Preparation: Marina Mishuk Chorus Master: Pavel Teplov
Die Zauberflote (Magic Flute) (opera in two acts) on the playbill