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unusual facts about The Magic Flute's Second Part


The Magic Flute's Second Part

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.


Alma Problem

The work that Mahler is known to have conducted on that occasion was actually Mozart's The Magic Flute; and, in any case, Alma's diaries show that she remained at home all that evening.

Andrew Logan

In the new millennium, Andrew Logan created jewelled sculptures for The Magic Flute opera in San Diego.

Anne Sharp

At the Royal Opera House, Sharp sang in the chorus in the first post-war production, Purcell's The Fairy Queen, then in the 1947 productions of Bizet's Carmen, Massenet's Manon and Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Benedicte Adrian

She has also distinguished herself as a solo artist for several years, with the role as "Queen of the Night" in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Norwegian Opera.

Berit Opheim

Recently, she has been a soloist with the BIT20 Ensemble on a number of records, won the Landskappleiken, played the role of Månefruva (The Queen of the Night) in a folk music version of The Magic Flute, with the Rikskonsertene (2004) and won the Gammleng-prisen in the folk music category in 2003.

Bram Gay

He has also done some extraordinary work for Brass bands in the UK, not least arranging the entire score of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Beethoven's 3rd symphony for brass band, as well as frequently conducting bands in Wales and Sweden (Gothenburg).

Brown Opera Productions

In the past BOP has done scenes from many operas and operettas, including Porgy and Bess, The Magic Flute, Norma, The Threepenny Opera, Candide, and Monsieur Choufleuri.

Carl Loewe

As a youth, he had a high soprano voice (he could sing the music of the "Queen of the Night" in The Magic Flute as a boy), and his voice developed into a fine tenor.

Caroline Stam

On the opera stage she appeared as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Clarijn in Der Spiegel von Venedig of Hendrik Andriessen, Ninfa in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Dorinda in Handel's Orlando and Hélène in Chabrier's Une éducation manquée.

Celestino

While building Celestino, Sergio received his technical training at the Metropolitan Opera and worked on productions such as Lucia, The Magic Flute and Madame Butterfly.

Cesare Valletti

In September 1953 he made his American debut at the San Francisco Opera in the title role of Werther, opposite Giulietta Simionato as Charlotte, and later that same year, in December, he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, singing Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, other roles at the Met included; Tamino, Almaviva, Nemorino, Ernesto, Alfredo, des Grieux.

Clamma Dale

She spent the next several years working in various opera houses in Paris, singing roles like Liu in Puccini's Turandot, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and the one-woman tour de force of the bloodthirsty title character in Erzsebet, an opera by Charles Chaynes.

Elsie Morison

She was admired for the touching sincerity of her acting and the lyrical warmth of her voice, in such roles as Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Marzelline (Fidelio), Micaela (Carmen), Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Marenka (The Bartered Bride), and Blanche in the British premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 1958.

F.L.Æ. Kunzen

From 1792 until 1794 he worked as musical director of the new Frankfurter National-Theater, where he put on Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

Fanny Corri-Paltoni

She earned rave reviews in London for her several other portrayals of Mozart heroines, including Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte and the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute.

Giovanni de Gamerra

De Gamerra is also said to have been the first translator of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte into Italian.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger

In 1986, the Metropolitan Opera of New York commissioned her poster for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and her paintings were shown by the Art Gallery of Lincoln Center.

Grand Theatre, Poznań

Designed by German architect Max Littmann, and inaugurated in 1910 with The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), the Grand Theatre in Poznań is a main opera stage in Greater Poland Voivodeship currently directed by Michał Znaniecki.

Greer Grimsley

He made his professional opera debut in 1980 at the Houston Grand Opera as one of the Armed Men in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Ilona Jokinen

Among the roles in Ilona Jokinen's repertoire are Susanna (Mozart's The Magic Flute), Kassandra (The Trojan Women by Jani Sivén), Amahl (Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Serpina (Pergolesi's La serva padrona).

Johannette Zomer

She has appeared on the opera stage since 1996 as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, as Euridice both in Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo and Haydn’s L'anima del filosofo, and as Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.

Jonathan Summers

He was a member of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, from 1976 to 1986, singing such roles as Albert in Werther, the Animal Tamer in the British premiere of the three-act version of Lulu, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Ford in Falstaff, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Marcello in La bohème.

Jun Kaneko

He also designed sets and costumes for opera performances: Opera Omaha's Madama Butterfly (2006) and a co production of the San Francisco Opera, Opera Omaha and the Washington National Opera, The Magic Flute (2012).

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Working for the stage he created in 1816 a star-spangled backdrop for the appearance of the "Königin der Nacht" in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, which is even quoted in modern productions of this perennial piece.

Lisa Tyrrell

She studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and made her operatic debut in 1990 singing Pamina in The Magic Flute for English Touring Opera.

Michael Halász

He has also recorded several of Mozart's operas, notably Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and The Marriage of Figaro.

Mozart and Freemasonry

This figure appears in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute in the overture, suggesting the opening of the Masonic initiation.

The story and music of his opera The Magic Flute is also considered to have strong Masonic influences.

Mozart's birthplace

The second floor is devoted to Mozart's interest in opera and includes the clavichord on which he composed The Magic Flute.

The third floor exhibits Mozart's childhood violin as well as portraits, documents and early editions of his music, and the second floor is devoted to Mozart's interest in opera and includes the clavichord on which he composed The Magic Flute.

Nikki Einfeld

While an Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, she performed many roles including Mascha in The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Serpina in La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the title role in Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and Pauline in The Seagull.

Poul Reichhardt

Perhaps his best movie roles were as a resistance man (De røde Enge - “The Red Meadows", 1945), and as the soldier in Soldaten og Jenny, ("The Soldier and Jenny", 1947. His ability as a singer even made him opera roles (Papageno in The Magic Flute) and though normally considered a typical “man of the people” he also mastered the role as a man of the world.

Rachel Yakar

Her repertory included Mozart's Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, and First Lady from The Magic Flute; Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Rameau's Aricia; Jean-Baptiste Lully's Climène from Phaëton, Leclair's Circé in Scylla et Glaucus; Arthur Honegger's Diane from Les aventures du roi Pausole and Francis Poulenc's Madame Lidoine from Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Ruth Ziesak

She appeared in roles of Mozart's operas, such as Pamina in The Magic Flute (at the Salzburg Festival 1991 and recorded with Georg Solti), Servilia in La clemenza di Tito (recorded with Nikolaus Harnoncourt) or the Countess in Il nozze di Figaro in Glyndebourne and with the Zurich Opera.

Sackbut

This includes the Requiem (K626, 1791), Great Mass in C minor (K423, 1783), Coronation Mass (C major) (K317, 1779), several other masses, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (K339, 1780), Vesperae de Dominica, his arrangement of Handel's Messiah plus two of his three great operas: Don Giovanni (K527, 1787) and Die Zauberflöte (K620, 1791).

Susanna Phillips

She participated in Santa Fe's 50th Anniversary Arias Gala Concert on 12 August 2006 and sang the role of Pamina in the final two performances of the 2006 season production of The Magic Flute.

Suzanne Adams

While in France she sang numeroues roles by Gounod and Meyerbeer, as well as the Queen of the Night in the The Magic Flute and the title role in Gluck's Eurydice among other roles.

Tamino

Tamino, the main character (a prince and hero), in the opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (the name of the character seems to be Italian)

Trisdee na Patalung

Na Patalung made his operatic conducting debut in 2006 in a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Tudor Davies

He sang a number of leading tenor parts from the Italian, French and German repertoire, such as Lohengrin, Tamino, Florestan, Faust, Don José and the Duke of Mantua.


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