The Magic Flute: Opera in Two Acts: Vocal Score: New Mozart Edition - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571507336 ISBN 13 : 9780571507337

Editeur : Faber Music Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

The vocal score for Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute. The libretto was written by Emanuel Schikaneder, and the work reflects the philosophy of the enlightenment, also containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism. The vocally challenging music has been admired by generations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mozart's Singspiel 'The Magic Flute' is regarded as one of the greatest operas of the entire repertoire. What makes it a great work of art is Mozart's unique ability to translate his humanistic ideals into music of extraordinary beauty and suggestiveness. The original libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder and Carl Ludwig Giesecle was a tale about good and evil, in which Sarastro, the high priest of an enlightened brotherhood, abducts Pamina, whose mother is the evil Queen of the Night. The Queen sends Prince Tamino to save Pamina. Tamino not only falls in love with Pamina, but also accepts Sarastro as the incarnation of truth and goodness. Tamino's counterpart is Papageno, the Queen's bird-catcher, whose earthiness counterbalances Tamino's idealism. Predictably, because of the Magic Flute and Papageno's bells, love and goodness triumph, Sarastro overcomes the Queen of the Night, Tamino and Pamina are united after many trials, and Papageno finds Papagena, a female version of himself - the principal theme of the whole opera being love. This is the Schirmer Edition of the Vocal Score in the original German with an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber Music Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571507336
• ISBN 13: 9780571507337
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible