SCENE 1 - OUVERTUREThe performance of The Magic Flute is going to start. A group of latecomers arrives in the theatre, so completely captureed from the musical charm of the ouverture that they are really “captured” and arrive on the stage. The group sings a song taken from the libretto in which they recall that princess Pamina and prince Tamino are engaged, but that the young fiancée has disappeared: is it because her mother has let her leave or is it because her father wanted to control her a little too much?

SCENE 2 - THE DRAGONS Just one character remains on the stage who announces his candidacy to Tamino, the dreamy prince. The scene turns into a treacherous forest and some threatening dragons appear. Also Papageno, who is Tamino’s alter ego and has his feet on the ground, arrives. They both seek refuge.

SCENE 3 - THE DRAGON LADIESThe monsters metamorphose into seductive Ladies: they are the real Love’s enchanting snakes.

SCENE 4a - THE FOUR LADIES Four ladies try to wipe Tamino and Papageno’s fear of loving...

SCENE 4b - THE QUEEN OF NIGHT… however they have to call their Queen. She is irritated because her daughter Pamina, a spoilt princess without any special virtue, dreams of a prince, instead of a real life and she is mad at the King Sarastro who has imprisoned Pamina’s desire of taking her life into her hands. The Queen stirrs the two men up and promises them to crown their love by offering a magic flute to them, which sound is the voice of real desire: it is only necessary to recognize it.

SCENE 5 - THE CIRCUS OF THE ENCOUNTERS

• But is there actually a real Pamina or a real Papagena deep in their dreams?

SCENE 6 - PAPAGENO AND PAPAGENASHow many delicious Papagenas fly around and within the desires! Who will be the right one?

SCENE 7-8-9 - PAMINA AND PAPAGENAIs Pamina the right one for Tamino?

SCENE 10 - THE FLUTE BRIGHTENS THE ATMOSPHEREA short intermezzo of peace

SCENE 11 - THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT On the contrary there is no peace for the Queen, her battle against Sarastro and his “wise and abstract piece of advice” starts. She reasonably claims Pamina’s right to choose her life and to make mistakes. She also takes it out on the two suitors, who lose their magic instrument during the fight.

SCENE 12 - ANGELS OF LOVE Love, under the appearance of a spiteful chance, comes to the aid of the two main characters, rescues them from the Queen and takes them to face a proper test of their true feelings: fire and cold of love.

SCENE 13 - FIREWithout the flute’s voice they will have to pass through the ardour of passion, in silence…

SCENE 14 - WATER… maybe tears and the abyss of loneliness

SCENE 15 - THE AIMand maybe at the end of the journey nobody will find the desired object…disappointment: Pamina and Papagena are only a dream. It is better to give up and get out of the way.

SCENE 16 - THE ENDINGThe angels of chance arrive with the recovered flute and recovered hopes. There is no magic in the flute, only the real voice of the heart, which gets often lost in a undistinguishable noise.

SCENE 17 - CURTAIN CALL
With the recovered wish to risk love, the characters celebrate new encounters and their joie de vivre.