The Magic Flute's Second Part

The Magic Flute's Second Part. The Labyrinth or The Struggle with the Elements (German: Der Zauberflöte zweiter Teil), is a "heroic-comic" opera in two acts composed in 1798 by Peter von Winter to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The opera is a sequel of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.[1]

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Premiere

The opera was premiered in Vienna on 12 June 1798, at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden. Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung as well by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer-Mayer.

Roles

Plot

After fighting against fire and water there are still two elements for Pamina and Tamino which are not defeated: the air and the earth. Tipheus tries to divorce the engaged couple and Monostatos tries to force the love of Papagena. Papageno is meeting his parents and siblings.

Reception

The opera had been performed at the Theater an der Wien and the Konzerthaus Berlin (1803), the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (1806), the Staatstheater Nürnberg (1807) and other venues. In 1978, there was a production without spoken dialogue in an unauthentic musical arrangement, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, directed by August Everding, stage design by Jürgen Rose in the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, and in 2002 it had been performed at Chemnitz Opera.

Notes

  1. ^ There is an other sequel named Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil, a libretto-fragment by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, intended to set in music by Paul Wranitzky.

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