The Magic Flute (1975 film) cigarettes in front of a "Smoking Forbidden" sign. Pamina and Tamino (Irma Urrila and Josef Köstlinger) are seen during intermission quietly playing chess in the dressing room, perhaps reflecting the chastity of their relationship as characters in the opera. Ulrik Cold studies his part for "Parsifal" with no less gravity than he brings to the role of Sarastro. Although the film emphasizes the context of the old theater, it also includes many effects that are purely cinematic. Thus, there are many close-ups of the singers. As Tamino looks at the locket containing Pamina's picture, she comes alive inside the locket,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague as both a composer and a performer. The great success of this visit generated a commission from the impresario Pasquale Bondini for another opera, which like "The Marriage of Figaro" was to have a libretto by Mozart's great collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte. Mozart came to Prague for the second time to help supervise the first performance of his opera "Don Giovanni". He arrived on 4 October 1787 and stayed until 12 or 13 November. The premiere of the opera was supposed to have taken place on 15 October, but could not be arranged until 29 October 1787. The work was