What is a magic flute?
Magic Flute is Singspiel in two acts of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who is also known for his other operas such as Don Giovanni, something fan tutte and marriage Figaro as well as further work. The magic flute was composed in 1791, with the libretto Emanuel Schikaneder, a composer, actor and theater director who entered this setting of his own text.
The premiere The Magic Flute was held on September 30, 1791 at the Auf der Wieden Theater in Vienna . The opera was very popular, with more than 100 performances in the first year. Schikaneder, a librettist, played the role of Papageno in the first performance Mozart made from the piano. Mozart's sister -in -law played the Queen of the Night.
Magic flute is an allegory, and this is partly indicated by the abundance of three in performance: three slaves, Three ladies serve the queen, three boys and three initial chords. Egypt is designed, but not Egypt of history.
Story The Magic Flute begins with the rescue of Tamina from the snake with the three staff of the Queen. After fainting, he does not know how he was saved and mistakenly attributed to Papagen, who allows him to stay in the dark. The operator shows Tamino the picture of Pamina, the queen of her daughter and falls in love with her. He is informed that Pamina is a prisoner of Sarastro, and to save her, Tamino gets a magic flute and papageno a set of magical bells. After meeting and overcoming Pamina prisoners, Monostatos and Sarastro entered, after which Pamina showed that Pamina did not fry from Sarastro, but Monostatos. Sarastro sends newcomers to the temple for cleaning.
in Act II of magic flutes , Sarastro reveals that Tamino and Pamina are destined for the wedding, but that Tamino must first withstand the attempts that Tamino agrees. Papageno says that if she wants to find a wife, he must also undergo exams, and when he learns that Papagena is predestined to his, he agrees, despite serious doubtEm. Both are forbidden to talk to any woman throughout her court. They are confronted with three participants who threaten, then with desperate punishments if they disobey the queen. Papageno believes them, but Tamino stands tight. Monostatos comes to Pamina and threatens to rape it because the queen reveals that her real goal is to kill Sarastro and give Pamina a dagger and charge her from this task. He leaves and Sarastro comes and stops Monostatos. Tamina reveals what happened and asks forgiveness for her mother, which Sarastro cannot grant.
Testing continues because every man meets a woman she loves but can't talk to her and she doesn't understand why. Stramina and Papageno, who feared that they had lost their love, both considered suicide, but they are prevented, Pamina by interrupting three boys, and papageno by the entrance of his true love Papagena. Queen and Monostatos have finally tried to win their journey, but Sarastro and Light beat darkness.