The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute
	Opera bi W. A. Mozart
	The arrival o the Queen of the Night. Stage set bi Karl Friedrich Schinkel for an 1815 production
Native title	Die Zauberflöte
Librettist	Emanuel Schikaneder
Leid	German
Premiere	30 September 1791; Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna

The Magic Flute (German: [Die Zauberflöte] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), K. 620, is an opera in twa acts bi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tae a German libretto bi Emanuel Schikaneder. The wirk is in the form o a Singspiel, a popular form that includit baith sangin an spoken dialogue.^[a] The wirk premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, juist twa month afore the componer's premature daith.

Notes

↑ The genre o the wirk is haurd tae specify. The programme at the premiere performance annoonced it as "Eine grosse oper" (A grand opera). Mozart entered the wirk in his personal catalogue as a "German opera", an the first prentit libretto cried it a Singspiel ^[1]

References

↑ Berger & Foil 2007, p. 11.

[2] The genre o the wirk is haurd tae specify. The programme at the premiere performance annoonced it as "Eine grosse oper" (A grand opera). Mozart entered the wirk in his personal catalogue as a "German opera", an the first prentit libretto cried it a Singspiel ^[1]

[FOOTNOTEBergerFoil2007[http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Flute-Black-Opera-Library/dp/1579127592/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448315434&sr=1-1#reader_1579127592_p.&nbsp;11]-1] Berger & Foil 2007, p. 11.

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