Tenor Maximilian Mayer has been chosen to play Tamino at the Staatstheater Kassel; director Florian Lutz and Barbara Frazier are staging “participatory musical theatre”, loosely based on “The Magic Flute”, and are opening the interpretation of this most popular work in the world of opera to democratic votes by the public: Depending on the public’s decisions, the actions and future course of the work change.
Mr. Mayer also takes on the title rôle in the German version of “The Life of Brian” (“Das Leben des Brian”), based — of course! — on the glorious Monty-Python film of the same name.
Staatstheater Kassel
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: “Die Zauberflöte”
Maximilian Mayer: Tamino
Feb 25 (première); Mar 1, 3, 18; Apr 9, 16; May 25, 27; June 2, 5, 25, 30; July 23.
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Monty Python: Das Leben des Brian
Maximilian Mayer: Brian
Feb 12, 26; Mar 19, 25.