"The magic flute" presentation Escola Dr. Carles Salicrú

1. “The
magic
flute”
Author: Eric Cano Guerrero
Modified by Javier Madrid
Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart:

2. First time shown:
30th September
1791, in Viena
In German
“Die
Zauberflöte”,
means
“The Magic
Flute”
The characters:

4. Prince Tamino: A young prince who sets out on an
adventure to find and rescue his princess.
Three Ladies: They are at the service of Queen of the
Night.
Papageno: a bird-catcher who sells his birds to the
Queen of the Night. He’s a simple guy who just
dreams of having a girlfriend!
Princess Pamina: daughter of the Queen of the Night and
Sarastro. She’s locked up in the house of Sarastro
waiting for rescue. She’s also very brave, standing up to
her mother!

5. Sarastro, the wise: The tall and imposing Sarastro is
High Priest of the Sun. At the start of the opera we think
he’s the bad guy but we’ll change our minds as the story
goes on
Queen of the Night: She pretends to be on Tamino’s
side at their first meeting, but she’s not as nice as she
seems!
Papagena: She is looking for a man to love

6. The story

7. Long time ago, in the Ancient Egypt, there was a misterious temple.
People were afraid of it and didn’t want to get close. The temple was
in the middle of a forest protected by enormous snakes.

8. One day, prince Tamino went into
the forest. A terrible monster-snake
attacked him. Tamino had no sword
to defend himself so he started to
run to escape. The snake was faster
than him but at the last moment one
of the the three fairies under The
Queen of the Night orders killed it
with a lance. She ran to tell her what
happened.

9. The prince had fallen asleep and
when he woke up he only saw a
young man singing and playing a
kind of flute. He was wearing a
strange feathers dress. His name was
Papageno.
His job was to catch and sell birds
to the Queen of the Night.
Papageno’s song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRtvVQ1fq8s

10. Tamino accepted and got a magic
flute to protect himself.
Papageno also got some little magic
bells.
The three fairies had an order from the Queen of the Night: Tamino
had to rescue beauty Pamina, the Queen’s daughter, from the
wizard Sarastro. He kept her captived in the temple. Then Tamino
could marry Pamina.

11. Then Saratro arrived on a
chariot drawn by lions.
Saratro gardiens caught prince Tamino and Papageno and explained
them they were wrong: The Queen of the Night was a bad woman
and Sarastro tried to save Pamina from her mother.

12. t
Sarastro was no so bad… he
wanted a great husband for her
daughter.
Sarastro told them that Tamino
could marry Pamina if they won
three exams showing their value
and wisdom. If they didn’t, they
would die!

13. The Queen of the Night was very
angry when she knew what happened.
She tried to convince Pamina to kill
Sarastro but she could not.
The Queen of the Night Aria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxGy83aipbY

14. The second test was to face
Sarastro’s lions. They could pass
the test because of the magic flute.
The third test was to spend a
night in the forest. Only Tamino
did it because Papageno was too
frightened.
The first test for Tamino and Papageno: They couldn’t talk to any
woman. Pamina thought that Tamino was not in love any more.

15. The Queen of the Night went to the temple with her three fairies to
face her enemy, Sarastro. After a great storm the Queen and the
fairies dissapeared.

16. Finally, prince Tamino could marry
his girlfriend, princess Pamina, and
they lived happily for ever more.
Papageno was sad because he didn’t
have a true love as prince Tamino
had. But at the end he found the girl
he had dreamt about: Papagena!
Papageno and Papagena Duet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SggJWtB2A