The Academy of Sciences opened the New Year
with Magic Flute
Photo: Stanislava Kyselová, Academic bulletin
The Academy of Science of the Czech Republic together with National theatre organized on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 a new years performance in Estates Theatre in Prague. On this gala occasion which has become already a tradition met the representatives of the academia, politics, Church and other honorary guests. The chosen performance for this year was an imaginative opera Magic Flute by Mozart in which fairy-tale and comic elements meld with sage philosophy and symbolism of the mysterious Masonic order.