These six Vienna Boys’ Choir sang their adult colleagues in the “Magic Flute” on the wall. The audience loves the young talents.
The “Three Boys” play a major role in The Magic Flute. So they lead Tamino to the temple of wisdom, the temple of reason and the temple of nature. The three boys are played by a total of six Vienna Boys’ Choir. Adrian (14), Yvo (13), Teodor (11), Raphael (13), Stanislas (13) and Paul (14) have quickly become the secret stars of the “Magic Flute” with the Salzburg Festival audience. Some of the boys have taken on a long journey to do this. Like Stanislas from Nancy, France: “I saw a documentary about the Boys’ Choir on French television. It was shown that children from different countries sing in the choir, and I applied,” says the 13-year-old, who later wants to be an opera singer or actor. But in order to be able to play in The Magic Flute, the six boys had to go through another casting graduate “We were about 20 kids at the casting. Then the three of us were supposed to sing the scenes from the opera, always in different combinations and with different stage directions. Of course I was very excited,” recalls Raphael from Vienna. During the rehearsals themselves, things were visibly more relaxed for the six up-and-coming singers, as Teodor from Belgrade explains: “I had a lot of fun with the rehearsals. We were praised quite often by the director.” And Adrian from Vienna also discovered his future dream role in the course of rehearsals: “I would like to play Papageno because he is so funny.”
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