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They send the Ladies to sleep and offer to guide the men to Sarastro’s camp. Both instruments, bells and flute, have the power to help the owners and to change evil into good. Papageno’s padlock is removed and he is ordered to help Tamino and given a set of magic bells. To help him, he is presented with a Magic Flute. The Queen of the Night arrives and urges a very frightened Tamino to keep his promise to rescue Pamina. Tamino falls in love with the picture and promises to rescue the beautiful girl. They show Tamino a picture of the Queen’s daughter, Pamina, whom they say has been kidnapped by an evil man-Sarastro. The Three Ladies reappear and punish Papageno for his lie by locking his mouth with a padlock. Papageno is a natural improviser and he claims credit for killing the fire-breathing beast. As Tamino regains consciousness, the birds are scared away. Papageno, a bird catcher, is trying to lure birds into his net using his whistle. Seeing how handsome the young man is, they go to tell the Queen what happened. Three Ladies-warriors of the Queen-hear his cries and spear the beast. He cries for help and faints with terror. Tamino, a young traveler who is passing through the realm of the Queen of the Night, is being pursued by a fire-breathing beast. Mozart’s classic opera, The Magic Flute, has been completely re-imagined, transformed and translated into multiple languages (including English, Xhosa, Zulu and Tswana) by the Isango Ensemble- but the story remains the same! Before you get swept into the magical world created by this brilliant South African troupe, brush up on the plot of this classic story: ACT ONE