La Flûte Enchantée, Opéra Maçonnique: Essai D'explication Du Livret Et de la Musique

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A. A. Knopf, 1971 - 336 páginas
Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is universally recognized as a great masterpiece--and almost as universally accused of suffering from an incomprehensible, if not silly, libretto. The author demonstrates (with myriad examples from both the libretto and the music) that, far from making nonsense, the opera is crowded with the most profound meanings. Having demonstrated the inconsistency of the legend according to which the "stupidity" of the plot resulted from a midstream change of plan, he displays the coherence of the opera, uncovers the interrelated hidden significance of its characters and situations, and relates them all to the great cosmic myths of the esoteric tradition from which they emanate. Under the illumination so engagingly supplied by the author, The Magic Flute emerges as it really is: a rigorously constructed theater piece in which Mozart's wonderful music and the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder (and others) fulfill and clarify one another. This is constructive scholarship at its most readable best--in a book that is alive with the atmosphere of eighteenth-century Vienna and with fascinating men and women, from sages and royal personages to grimy scoundrels, who supply many curious sidelights on politics, music, literature, religion, and freemasonry.

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