Il Flauto Magico Atto Ii - Spoiler with subtitles

Welcome to this video about the second Act of The Magic Flute, now, the days... here we are, is the moment... These operas at the opera house are very special, because since they sell tickets a long time in advance, then you forget about it, so, finally the show arrives in a jiffy therefore, as I was saying: here it is, so we will show you this second Act of the Magic Flute During the preparation of the video I was wondering what were the criteria we had adopted to select the scenes to draw in fact, practically, the first drawing of the second Act is this one which is far ahead in the story. Here you can see Pamina lying on a flower bed and her mother: the Queen of the Night, who offers her a dagger. We said that Monostatos had a weakness for Pamina and in fact in this scene she is sleeping and he hovers around her so comes the Queen of the Night and throws him out. Then she asks Pamina where is the young man who she sent to her and she replies that he has embraced the way of the initiates; so the Queen of the Night gets really disappointed and says to her that, now Pamina is lost as she was lost herself in hers turn as hers man had choose in his turn the same path. So she gives her that dagger and assigns to her the task to kill Sarastro with the dagger. Here there is again a huge jump basically we had missed a part, and quite important, to tell the truth, in which Sarastro teaches Tamino and Papageno that one important thing in their discipline is silence: then he gives them the task to maintain silence... Here you see the children who have given food to Papageno and to Tamino, I do not remember... whether they gave... what did they give? Do you remember? The flute? Maybe the flute, perhaps they brng once again the flute, because from time to time they gave it to him again... so Tamino begins to play, Pamina hear the sound of his flute, she comes up and starts talking to him, of course because she do not know that he has the task to remain silent; he, rather than answering, really suffering just keeps playing In fact, we had thought to draw this, let's say, egg shaped bubble to represent the fact that Tamino maintains silence. Then Pamina is pretty desperate and says: this is worse than death... oh by the way... this thing is very nice, because practically, in this scene, the children arrive in a flying machine and with that flying machine almost all the set designers satisfy their fancy and this is always an expectation: one of the Magic Flute expectations It is to see how was imagined this flying machine, at least from my point of view, but I do not know about other people. And here there is, in fact, Pamina desperate, once again on a bed of flowers that, let's say, in familiarise herself with the dagger and has a kind of conversation, as I was saying, with the dagger and invites it to kill her, because life does not has any sense if Tamino does not love her In fact, she interpreted that Tamino's silence as a demonstration that he does not longer love her. So the children are seeing her, they come closer and say: "Let's stay for a while hereby side and let's hear what she says" and at one point they comment: what sort of dark words says Pamina. And when Pamina is about to stab herself with the dagger, the children stop her and reassure her that Tamino, of course, loves her as he did before and they stop that tragic action of Pamina. Here there is another point that reminds us of our shortcomings in fact, here, a kind of second chance is given to Papageno because Papageno had also the task to maintain silence But he met a... I cannot... you cannot say "girl" because in some versions, well, she is usually an elderly person, in that scene, however, he met a woman and talked to her and this thing was against the rule they had received. He meet again this person who, although looks like an elderly person, she says to being quite young ... I think she says to be 18 years old and a few minutes... something like that. But she looks pretty old. And Papageno, amazed by this early age that she declares, asks her if she has also a boyfriend, and she says yes. and answers that this boyfriend is named Papageno and that he is just in front of her. Papageno is very amazed to hear that and she press asking him to be faithful forever Papageno, initially is not very convinced, but she let's say that she blackmails him or something, so he promises loyalty and adds softly, "as long as I will see you more attractive" so Papagena turns to the young girl who said she was and just see that she has the little bird on his head, just like Papageno, then you can say that it is precisely kindred spirits. Let's see what comes now... Well, here we skipped another piece, although not so important, well not pivotal, Tamino was in front of the doors that lead through fire, water and air he take these ways without fear but, in the distance Pamina calls him and asks to wait and she say that next to him would go through any fire, any water, and then they pass together through these elements. Here there is another tragic moment of the tale, In fact, what I did not say before, as I was talking about Papageno and Papagena, is the fact that he get punished once again because he has spoken so Papagena is taken away to him he is again desperate and wants to hang himself or at least, he would like to do it, but he feels like he does not have the courage then speaks a whole monologue, tied the rope on a branch of the tree and he start put his neck in the noose and he asks for confirmation whether he really must do it; He says: "I will count up to three and then I'll do it" he count slowly, but, he gets some disappointed because no one stops him at least, down to the wire, because then come the children back to fix things, they tell him he must not be consumed with love and he replies, "but you are young, you do not know how much love can hurt and they correct him and say: "just ring your magic bells, and you'll see her coming to you" and then he says: "ah, I'm so stupid: I forgot those little magic things" So, he plays loud his magic bells and again Papagena appears who finally may stay with him and they plan together how will be their lives. And so we came to the end... Now, I do not remember very well this part, there is the Queen of the Night who wants to enter in the temple, I do not know whether she wants to kill personally Sarastro or what else, however, come the sunrays that dissipates the darkness of night and so ends the opera, and Tamino and Pamina as well are finally together.