Schikaneder playing the role of Papageno in The Magic Flute. Engraving by Ignaz Alberti.
The Magic Flute is a celebrated opera composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart employed a libretto written by his close colleague Emanuel Schikaneder, the director of the Theater auf der Wieden at which the opera premiered in the same year. (He also played the role of Papageno). Grout and Williams describe the libretto thus:
Schikaneder, a kind of literary magpie, filched characters, scenes, incidents, and situations from others' plays and novels and with Mozart's assistance organized them into a libretto that ranges all the way from buffoonery to high solemnity, from childish faerie to sublime human aspiration – in short from the circus to the temple, but never neglecting an opportunity for effective theater along the way.[1]
^Donald Grout and Hermine Weigel Williams (2003) A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 327. Extracts on line at Google Books: [1]
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