Il Flauto magico. Neoegizio ed “eresia massonica” nell’Europa in rivoluzione alla fine del Settecento

For the third year in a row the Council of Milan Culture and Entertainment, in cooperation with IN/ARCH National Institute of Architecture Lombardy Branch, and the Teatro alla Scala, promotes in conjunction with the opening of the Scala season an exhibition linked to the staged opera.
This year Il Flauto Magico di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart offers an opportunity for reinterpreting the Europe of the late 1700s that, even though moved by a deep trust in scientific knowledge, was pervaded by a peculiar passion for Ancient Egypt, its symbols and its rituals.
More than a passing trend this is the manifestation of an ancient uneasiness joined to the desire of finding again lost objective certainties through the archetypes of thought and Art.
The will to “find again” history and broaden the boundaries of experience, universalism and cosmopolitanism, go naturally hand in hand with that universal brotherhood spirit that feeds the “eresia massonica/Masonic heresy” in which Mozart believed and to which the Magic Flute was dedicated; the rituals, the symbols, the connections to the ancient wisdom of the Freemasonry seem to satisfy the reaction against the exactitude of sciences, rationalism and the eighteenth-century classicism.