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OVERTURE A Prelude & Fugue
ACT 1, Scene 1
ACT 1: Killing the Dragon Three ladies save the unconscious prince.
Prince meets Birdcatcher
Three Ladies bestow gifts for a quest.
The quest is the rescue of a princess.
Queen seeks rescuer for lost daughter
Queen also promises rewards to rescuers
Prince s magic flute can charm wild beasts
[An Orpheus Myth for the Enlightenment]
Orpheus charms wild beasts with music
Mysterious trio appear as guides.
Birdcatcher Papageno finds and frees the Princess Pamina with his magic bells.
[It s the Enlightenment, folks. Naturally the working man does better than the prince.]
Meanwhile Tamino reaches the Temple
At the Temple, Sarastro imposes trials.
Act 2, Scene 1 In the Temple, the lovers are separated. Trials are imposed on Tamino.
Tamino accepts the imposed trial of silence, and other tests. Pamina is bereft, and Papageno impatient.
Queen commands Pamina to kill Sarastro
Defying her mother, Pamina tells Tamino of the Magic Flute s power
The lovers face trials by Fire & Water
All alone now, Papageno seeks death.
The 3 boys bring in Papagena
Anticipating their happy family-to-be!
FINALE
Birth of a new World Order?
Mozart s superlative genius makes his arch-rival Antonio Salieri question his own faith.
MOZART AND SALIERI Drama by the Russian playwright Alexander Pushkin
Mozart conducting an operatic premiere AMADEUS
Did Salieri poison Mozart?
NO. Mozart s cause of death was determined to be MILIARY FEVER. But Salieri was never forgiven.
Die Zauberflöte
Theater an der Wien *** Founded by Emanuel Schikaneder as Theater an der Wie
Johann Josef Emanuel SCHIKANEDER * * Born, 1 September 1751 Died, 21 September 1812 BAVARIA VIENNA
Schikaneder was born in a house in Bavaria, where his mother and father desperately poor made a living as domestic servants.
Schikaneder: THE MAGIC FLUTE A comic AND heroic opera
Common ground for Mozart and Schikander = FREE-MASONRY
1789: Oberon, King of the Elves, music by Wranitsky 1790: The Philosopher's Stone or The Magic Isle. Grand-heroic-comic opera, music by Schack, Henneberg, Gerl, Schikaneder, Mozart 1791: The Magic Cap (aka The Beneficent Dervish) The Magic Flute, libretto by Schikaneder and music by Mozart 1794: The Mirror of Arcadia, Heroic-comic opera, music by Süssmayr 1795: The King s Son from Ithaca 1797: Babylon s Pyramids, sequel to The Magic Flute 1798: The Labyrinth OR The Battle of the Elements (= Der Zauberflöte Part II. ) OPERA PRODUCTIONS OF Emanuel Schikaneder * at Vienna s Wiednertheater * LIBRETTIST * COMPOSER * *IMPRESARIO*
Residence of Constanze & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart VIENNA 1791
Character sketches * Early 19 th century
Schikaneders, father & son
HERO-PRINCE & BIRD-MAN
HERO-PRINCE & ROYAL PRINCESS
BIRD-MAN & BIRD-WOMAN
Monostatos the Moor Genie Priest of Isis & Osiris
HERO-PRINCE & PRIEST OF THE TEMPLE
HERO-PRINCE & QUEEN OF NIGHT
ASTRAFIAMMANTE
THE Queen of the Night
HERO-PRINCE & BIRD-MAN
HERO-PRINCE & SARASTRO
HERO-PRINCE & PRIEST OF THE TEMPLE
THE MAGIC FLUTE of Schikaneder & Mozart, 1791 A visionary drama of cosmic conflict POWERS OF LIGHT POWERS OF NIGH T
Queen of the Night The Romantic Age seized on DON GIOVANNI & MAGIC FLUTE as anthems to the newly liberated human spirit and imagination.
MARIA THERESA 1717-1780 Hapsburg ruler of Austro-Hungarian Empire Maria Theresa taler ~ STILL BEING MINTED!
Was the Mozart s Queen of the Night a parody of the Empress Maria Theresa?
Emanuel Schikaneder PAPAGENO
Emanuel Schikaneder The first PAPAGENO Librettist of Mozart s Die Zauberflöte
FREEMASONRY PYRAMID ALL- SEEING EYE
MASONIC MEETING 18 th century
Freemason symbol on $1 bill
1776: NEW ORDER OF AGES
MASONIC HALLS Singapore Venice
INITIATION not EXECUTION
MASONIC HALLS England Colombia
Modern Masonic staging of Mozart s MAGIC FLUTE
19 th opposition to Freemasonry
Joseph Benedict Augustus John Anthony Michael Adam von Habsburg-Lothringen KAISER * * * IMPERATOR Son of Maria Theresa, and ruler of the Austro- Hungarian Empire in Mozart s time
Vienna City Artillery parade, 1791 - AM HOF
EMPIRES IN COLLISION, 1788-1791 Hapsburg emperor vs. Ottoman sultan
ZOROASTER OF ANCIENT PERSIA
RAPHAEL School of Athens 1511
Zoroaster and Ptolemy
PERSIA and EGYPT
Zoroaster and Sarastro?
18 th century view of Pyramids & Sphinx
MAP OF ANCIENT EGYPT: 1746
O ISIS AND OSIRIS!
Mozart playing for Emperor Joseph II
TOO MANY NOTES
As a young man, Mozart had rediscovered the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) during a visit to the Church of St Thomas, Leipzig. He spread out the music for a Bach motet, and moved quickly from part to part so as to take in the extraordinary counterpoint of so many voices. Later, young Beethoven made Bach his daily bread.
Not one note too many!
The Many Worlds of John R. Hale UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE