The Magic Flute House opens to the public

The restored Magic Flute House will be moved to its new location inside the Mozart Residence on Makartplatz in Salzburg for installation at the end of October 2022, and will be open to visitors from summer 2023. After months of restoration at the Salzburg Open Air Museum, it will now become part of the museum.

According to legend, Mozart wrote part of the Magic Flute in the so-called Magic Flute House. The librettist and manager of the Freihaus Theatre, Emanuel Schikaneder, is said to have kept Mozart in this small summer house in one of the gardens of the Starhembergisches Freihaus (on the Wieden in Vienna) in order to ensure that the opera was completed on time. Wolfgang Amadé is also said to have met singers there to rehearse parts of the opera. In 1877 it came to Salzburg in the possession of the Mozarteum Foundation, first to the Kapuzinerberg, then to the Bastionsgarten of the Mozarteum in Schwarzstraße, and is now part of the Mozart Residence Museum.

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