La Flûte Enchantée, Opéra Maçonnique: Essai D'explication Du Livret Et de la MusiqueA. 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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... stage direction continues , " dressed lightly and without sandals , is introduced under the guidance of the two men wearing black armor . Fire burns on their helmets . In loud voices , they read him the luminous transparent inscrip ...
... stage direction continues , " dressed lightly and without sandals , is introduced under the guidance of the two men wearing black armor . Fire burns on their helmets . In loud voices , they read him the luminous transparent inscrip ...
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... stage is to be under- stood symbolically . Unlike the common procedure , the music eschews all descriptive comment , which would have been easy to make and must have been tempting for the evocation of Fire and Water ( we are very far ...
... stage is to be under- stood symbolically . Unlike the common procedure , the music eschews all descriptive comment , which would have been easy to make and must have been tempting for the evocation of Fire and Water ( we are very far ...
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... stage directors ) as Beckmesser's entrance into Hans Sachs's house after his caning . Monostatos leads the foray , whence the general comic tone of the scene despite its serious meaning . To a question by him , the Queen replies by ...
... stage directors ) as Beckmesser's entrance into Hans Sachs's house after his caning . Monostatos leads the foray , whence the general comic tone of the scene despite its serious meaning . To a question by him , the Queen replies by ...
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