The Magic Flute

comic opera, "The Magic Flute," talks about a prince named, Tamino, who was attacked by a big serpent. Luckily, three ladies who are the servants of the Queen of the Night saved him. Later on, the three ladies showed him a portrait of the queen's daughter, Pamina, and Tamino instantly falls in love with her. The Queen of the Night promises Tamino that he can have her daughter, if he can rescue Pamina who is imprisoned by the evil Sarastro. Tamino agrees, and was given a magic flute by the three ladies

tells the story and the aria responds emotionally to what just happened. The recitative refers to song-speech. It is derived from the Italian verb meaning “to recite” and its purpose is to portray the quality of speech. The no. 4 recitative of The Magic Flute is where we are introduced to the Queen of the Night. The recitative is in the key of B-flat major and continues the Allegro maestoso tempo marking of the entrance music. It starts with a syncopated accompaniment figure which is useful in creating

Die Zauberflöte, The Magic Flute is composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is a singspiel in two acts. Its German libretto is written by Austrian actor and theatrical producer Emanuel Schikaneder. In early 1791, Mozart was deeply in debt as his music no longer appealed to the Viennese public. Thus Mozart was extremely keen when Emanuel Schikaneder suggested that they work together on a new opera. Schikaneder had arrived in Vienna in 1789. He managed the Theater-auf-der-Wieden, a theatre that specialized

The Magic Flute is an opera with two acts by W.A. Mozart. The story of this opera begins with a handsome prince, Tamino, is fighting with a serpent. Three ladies attendants of the Queen of Night kill the serpent, save Tamino, and show him the portrait of the daughter of the Queen of Night, princess Pamina. Tamino, instantly falls in love with Pamina. Tamino and the birdcatcher, Papageno, leave to save Pamina, who was captured by Sarastro, the Queen of Night give them a magic flute and a magic bell

The Magic Flute is one of the performance from the Metropolitan Opera. According to the book (The art of Listening Music), The Magic Flute is a German opera that has some serious with comic implications. It was performed on December 30, 2006. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was the fantastic composer of this stunning piece. He created this song as a fairy tale. The librettist is Emanuel Schikaneder. The Magic Flute is performed by not only an orchestra but also a chorus. The show is a musical

“The Magic Flute” was the opera Mozart did, the opera premiered in Vienna, Italy where Mozart called home. The date of what “The Magic Flute premiered was September 30, 1791, three months after the death of Wolfgang Mozart. The opera is in two acts and it has a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera is a fairy tale, like when the prince saves the princess and they fall madly in love. The music for the opera was drama like and was in different music styles. The cast was very small, it had only

is that he was a member of the Masonic brotherhood. Mozart was said to be “deeply convinced” (Henry 7) of the value of Freemasonry and allowed elements of Freemasonry to shape many of his musical works. One of Mozart’s most famous operas is The Magic Flute, spawning several adaptations included Kenneth Branagh’s 2006 film, and though it is a technically comedy, Mozart incorporated serious intellectual connotations into the work. It is well known to have heavy influences of Freemasonry especially evident

extremely different experiences. Before taking this course, I have never watched a live opera in person. When I went to New York City during the spring break, I watched Prince Igor in the Metropolitan Opera House. And at the end of March, I watched The Magic Flute produced by the Music School of UM in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. It is apparent that the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre is not as magnificent as the Metropolitan Opera House in regard to construction. However, when it comes to listening experience

the Night are found in the story Lulu, oder der Zauberflöte (Lulu, or the Magic Flute) by Jakob August Liebeskind, published in a collection of fairy tales called Dschinnistan. In Lulu, a youth finds himself in the kingdom of a fairy queen, known as the ‘radiant fairy’. Like the Queen of the Night, this fairy queen asks the youth to rescue her daughter, whom has been captured by an evil sorcerer, and is given a magic flute to aid him (Spaethling 1975, pp. 48 -49). However, unlike the fairy queen

that exist in the literary universe, there are some works that manage to teach important lessons in an innovative and engaging manner. One outstanding example of this is none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final opera, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), paired with a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Interestingly enough, Mozart both composed and premiered this opera in 1791, twenty years after he visited the Temple of Isis, which gave him inspiration for a few scenes incorporated into