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What is less widely known, and what makes this particular piece so fascinating, is that Schinkel was also a formidable painter and one of the most influential stage designers of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1815, Schinkel was commissioned to design the sets for a new production of Mozart's \u003cem\u003eDie Zauberflöte\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Flute\u003c\/em\u003e) at Berlin's Königliches Schauspielhaus. The result, premiered in 1816, was nothing short of revolutionary. 🎭\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA Design Fit for Freemasons\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMozart's opera is steeped in Masonic symbolism (both the composer and his librettist Emanuel Schikaneder were Freemasons), and Schinkel leaned fully into it. Rather than the whimsical fairy tale sets audiences might have expected, he conjured a monumental, Egyptian inspired architecture of temples, pyramids and pylons, lending the opera a gravity and grandeur that had never been seen on the operatic stage before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStructurally, the opera pits two worlds against one another: the chaotic, nocturnal realm of the Queen of the Night against the ordered, sunlit wisdom of Sarastro's temple. Tamino and Pamina must journey between them. Schinkel's \u003cstrong\u003eStarry Hall \u003c\/strong\u003eis the visual heart of the former. 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