Mozart Magic Flûte Schirmer Opera Score Editions

Contents: Rossini: La calunnia (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) ? A un dottor della mia sorte (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) ? Cornelius: Mein Sohn (Der Barbier von Bagdad) ? Smetana: Kezal's Aria (The Bartered Bride) ? Puccini: Vecchia zimarra (La Boheme) ? Mussorgsky: I have attained to power (Boris Godunov) ? Varlaam's Song (Boris Godunov) ? Pimen's Tale (Boris Godunov) ? Verdi: Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal (Don Carlo) ? Infelice! e tuo credevi (Ernani) ? Infin che un brando vindice (Ernani) ? Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth) ? Il lacerato spirito (Simon Boccanegra) ? Di due figli vivea, padre beato (Il Trovatore) ? Mozart: Madamina! il catalogo e questo (Don Giovanni) ? Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) ? Solche herge laufne Laffen (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) ? Se vuol ballare, signor Contino (Le Nozze di Figaro) ? Non piu andrai (Le Nozze di Figaro) ? In diesen heil'gen Hallen (Die Zauberflöte) ? O Isis und Osiris (Die Zauberflöte) ? Donizetti: Ah, un foco insolito (Don Pasquale) ? A tanto amor (La Favorita) ? Dalle stanze, ove Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) ? Tchaikovsky: Gremin's Aria (Eugene Onegin) ? Gounod: Vous qui faites l'endormie (Faust) ? Le veau d'or (Faust) ? Beethoven: Hat man nicht auch Gold daneben (Fidelio) ? Wagner: Mogst du, mein Kind (Der Fliegende Hollander) ? Mein Herr und Gott (Lohengrin) ? Nun hort und versteht (Pogner's Address) (Die Meistersinger) ? Tatest du's wirklich? (Tristan und Isolde) ? Ponchielli: Ombre die mia prosapia (La Gioconda) ? Meyerbeer: Piff, Paff (Les Heugenots) ? Gluck: De noirs pressentiments (Iphigenie en Tauride) ? Halvey: Si la rigueur (La Juive) ? Nicholai: Als Bublein klein (Drinking Song) (The Merry Wives of Windsor) ? Massenet: Epouse quelque brave fille (Manon) ? Flotow: Lasst mich euch fragen (Porter Song) (Martha) ? Thomas: De son coeur j'ai calme la fievre (Mignon) ? Dargomyzhsky: The Miller's Song (Rusalka).

Mozart's Singspiel 'The Magic Flute' (or 'Die Zaubeflote')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 intomusic 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 abductsPamina 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 counterpartis 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 Taminoand 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 Libretto in the original Germanwith an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.