Written during the final year of Mozart's life, The Magic Flute presents a magical world of surreal characters and mysterious rites, and the composer filled it with Masonic symbols and allegory. The Magic Flute was written for, and in collaboration with, Mozart’s friend Emanuel Schikaneder, an impresario, actor, dramatist, amateur singer, and builder of the Theatre an der Wien, which also attracted audiences from many levels of society. The Magic Flute: A beginner's guide to Mozart's operas. When Tamino comes to, he is approached by the bird-catcher Papageno. The opera, Mozart’s last, premiered at the rustic Theater auf der Wieden near Vienna on September 30, 1791, not long before Mozart’s death on December 5. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement, strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the the long religious conflict that … The piece was composed for a suburban theatre in Vienna with which Mozart had a close relationship – Freihaus-Theatre auf der Wieden – run by actor and impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, who also wrote the libretto. ENO The Magic Flute: production gallery 2018/19. The Magic Flute (or Die Zauberflöte in the original German) was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" ("Hell's vengeance boils in my heart"), commonly abbreviated "Der Hölle Rache", is an aria sung by the Queen of the Night, a coloratura soprano part, in the second act of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her! The Magic Flute is Kenneth Branagh's English-language film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte. The Magic Flute was composed in 1791, right at the end of the Age of Enlightenment, which had started in the early years of the 18th century. The words were written by Emanuel Schikaneder, who also authored the rest of the Magic Flute libretto, headed the theater troupe that premiered the work, and created the role of Papageno. The film is a co-production between France & the UK, produced by Idéale Audience and in association with UK's Peter Moores Foundation. Mozart’s last two operas both premiered in 1791, with The Magic Flute being completed before Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, although it premiered after. The Magic Flute, German Die Zauberflöte, singspiel in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a German libretto by Austrian actor and theatrical producer Emanuel Schikaneder. Die Zauberflöte (The magic flute) is among the best known of the 22 operas written by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91). Is The Magic Flute a fairy story, then, a jumble of loosely-Masonic allegories that changed direction half way through, or is it a tightly constructed plot whose twists and ambiguities all serve a unified, higher purpose? by Frater S.A. He faints and is saved by the Queen of Night’s three Ladies. Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, is a fantastical tale that’s as moving as it is witty, and features some of Mozart’s most beautiful pieces A partial answer emerges in the backstory of Schikaneder’s troupe, which had been performing “fairy-tale operas” for several years before The Magic Flute. Chased by a serpent, Prince Tamino finds himself in an unknown land. Mozart composed the opera in the spring and summer of 1791, with the exception of the Overture and the March of the Priests at the beginning of Act II. ENO The Magic Flute: pre-performance talk. The subject of this lecture is “Die Zauberflöte” or “The Magic Flute”, written in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Magic Flute is arguably the most well-known and loved opera in the history of music, probably because it has a simple fairy-tale type of plot and because the music is easy to listen to and to “understand”.