埃及王子塔米诺（约瑟夫·凯泽 Joseph Kaiser 饰）在临危受难之际得到了夜女王的拯救，夜女王将自己的女儿帕米纳（Amy Carson 饰）的肖像拿给塔米诺看，美丽的帕米纳一下子就俘虏了王子的心。夜女王告诉王子，帕米纳被一位名叫萨拉斯特罗（勒内·帕佩 René Pape 饰）的男子给掳走了，如果王子能够将自己的女儿平安的带回来，就把帕米纳许配给他为妻，塔米诺欣然应允。
实际上，萨拉斯特罗并非夜女王所说的那样十恶不赦，夜女王的丈夫在死前将女儿托付给他，交由他来管教，这一举动招致了夜女王的不满，于是设下了如此的计谋。在拯救帕米纳的途中，聪慧的塔米诺渐渐识破了夜女王的阴谋。

The stakes could not be higher as one of the theater's finest stage directors teams up with one of the world's leading opera companies to tackle opera's most monumental challenge: the production of Wagner's epic Ring cycle - the four-part, 16-hour work that the composer first presented in 1876. For the past 130 years, the quest to produce a perfect Ring has stymied directors, including Wagner himself, who struggled to meet the immense theatrical demands of his own creation. The cosmic vision of gods and mortals vying for power and destroyed by greed calls for astonishing stage visuals of fire storms, flying warriors, and underwater and heavenly actions.