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Backstage Talk in the Silbersaal

One week before the big premiere of Zauberflöte – The Musical, we invite you to an extraordinary evening in the Silbersaal, where we want to illuminate and analyze the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from different perspectives. We welcome Prof. Felix Mayer, Director of the TUM Center for Culture and Arts at the Technical University of Munich, as our discussion partner. The Magic Flute has accompanied the musician and conductor since his childhood and, according to him, plays a crucial role in his life.

Other guests on the podium include Frank Nimsgern and Benjamin Sahler, the composer and director of The Magic Flute – The Musical, who have adapted the 1791 material in a completely new musical way. And, of course, there will also be some taster performances from the actors and actresses from the musical that evening.

Admission to the event is free, but booking a ticket in our webshop is a prerequisite for attending the event.

Professor Felix Mayer

As a sought-after lecturer, he holds musicological seminars and lectures for the Carl von Linde Academy of the Technical University of Munich, among others, with topics such as “Mozart: Enlightenment – Philosophy – Revolution” or “Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungs”. He was awarded the “Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal” by the Technical University of Munich for special services. He founded the TUMChor in 2012. He conducts the TU Munich’s annual concerts in the Philharmonie am Gasteig. He was a mentor at the Young Academy of the TU Munich in 2015/2016. Felix Mayer was appointed honorary professor at the TU Munich in 2017. Since 2022, he has been the founding director of the TUM Center for Culture and Arts.

Frank Nimsgern

The musician, composer, producer and artistic director Frank Nimsgern, who won the ARD Television Award, two Musical1 Awards in 2017, 1st prize in the 2019 Musical Elections & several nominations for the “German Musical Theater Award”, is one of the new representatives of contemporary European musical theater. This is evidenced by well over two million visitors to works such as “Der Ring” (Bonn Opera), “Qi”, “Elements”, “Hexen”, “Hänsel & Gretel” (all Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast), “POE” (Munich), “Phantasma” (Saarländisches Staatstheater), “Classics” (Theater Pforzheim), “Falco”, “Der Mann mit dem Lachen” (Staatsoperette Dresden) “Paradise of Pain” or “SnoWhite” (Bonn Opera), both of which were broadcast as musical films by ARD, among others. In 2019, his works “Der Ring” & “Der Mann mit dem Lachen” were nominated 5 times for the official “Deutscher Musical Theater Preis”. In 2020, “Der Mann mit dem Lachen” won 1st prize in the category “Most Popular Musical Novelty”.

Benjamin Sahler

Benjamin Sahler studied business administration in Hagen and musical theater directing with Götz Friedrich in Hamburg. He was director at the Südostbayerisches Städtetheater Passau/Landshut, assistant director and evening director at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau. From 2005, Sahler was artistic director of the Mitteldeutsche Kammeroper in Wittenberg. He has staged numerous operas, musicals and plays at several theaters and was the director and producer of the musical Ludwig² at the Festspielhaus Füssen, among others. He has been artistic director of the Festspielhaus Füssen since 2017. In the past, he was responsible for productions of Die Päpstin and Der Brandner Kaspar – Das Musical at the Deutsches Theater. He is also responsible for the musical Ein bisschen Frieden by Ralph Siegel, which will be shown in Munich for the first time in May.