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Revision as of 05:46, 28 November 2013
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.
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
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- Sarastro (bass)
- Queen of Night (soprano)
- Pamina, her daughter (soprano)
- Tamino (tenor)
- Papageno (baritone)
- Papagena (soprano)
- First Lady (later: Venus) (soprano)
- Second Lady (later: Adonis) (mezzo-soprano)
- Third Lady (later: their Page) (contralto)
- Three Genii (treble, mezzo-soprano, contralto)
- Monostatos, a moor (baritone)
- Tipheus, King of Paphos (baritone)
- Sithos, his friend (bass)
- High priestess (actress)
- Two priestesses (actresses)
- Gura, a moor (actress and dancer)
- Papageno, Papagena the older (bass, contralto)
- Two priests (tenor, bass)
- Two guards of the labyrinth (tenor, bass)
- Some priests and priestesses (choir)
- Some combatants of Tipheus (choir)
- Various little Papagenos and Papagenas (choir)
- Various moors, and folks (choir)
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 was 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 September 2002 it was performed at Chemnitz Opera.
On August 3, 2012, the opera was presented for the first time at the Salzburg Festival, in the courtyard of the residence of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg. The conductor was Ivor Bolton, The director was Alexandra Liedtke; the set designer was Raimund Orfeo Voigt; costumes were by Susanne Bisovsky and Elisabeth Binder-Neururer.
Goethe's sequel
There is an other sequel to the original Magic Flute, also named Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil, a libretto-fragment by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, intended to be set to music by Paul Wranitzky.
References
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- Branscombe, Peter (1991) Die Zauberflöte, Cambridge Opera Handbooks series, Cambridge University Press.
- Brukner, Fritz (1934, ed.) Die Zauberflöte. Unbekannte Handschriften und seltene Drucke aus der Frühzeit von Mozarts Oper. Verlag Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna.
- Buch, David (2004) "Die Zauberflöte, Masonic Opera, and Other Fairy Tales", in Acta Musicologica 76, 2004.
- Henderson, Donald G. (1983) "The "Magic Flute of Peter Winter", in Music & Letters 64 (3–4), pp. 193–205.
- Jahrmärker, Manuela and Waidelich, Till Gerrit (1992, ed.) Der Zauberfloete zweyter Theil unter dem Titel: Das Labyrinth oder der Kampf mit den Elementen. Hans Schneider, Tutzing.
Further reading
- Waidelich, Till Gerrit (2012) "[Papagenos Selbstvermarktung in Peter von Winters Labyrinth (Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil) sowie unbekannte Dokumente zu dessen Entstehung, Überlieferung und Rezeption in Wien und Berlin 1803] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)", in: Acta Mozartiana, 59 (2012), pp. 139–177.