The magic flute, masonic opera
xii, 336, xi, [16] pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 23 cm
9780575013629, 9780394434520, 0575013621, 0394434528
16190851
Part one. Preliminary circumvolutions. What everyone knows
Traditions and misunderstandings
The libretto, how many authors
Legend of the revised libretto
Sources of the libretto
History of the libretto and its growth
Mozart and Singspiel
Freemasonry in Vienna in the Eighteenth Century
Mozart and Freemasonry
Freemasonry and feminism in Die Zauberflöte
Part two. In pursuit of meaning. Exegesis of the five chords
The cosmogony of the libretto
The principle characters: two heavenly bodies, four elements
The secondary characters
Other symbols
The initiatory trials
From libretto to score
Part three. Analysis of the opera. Overall view
The overtures
The first act
The second act
Conclusion
Appendix 1 / Letter from Seyfried to Treitschke
Appendix 2 / Anonymous article in the Monatsschrift für Theater and Musik, Vienna, 1857
Commentaries on plates with sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
This translation originally published, New York: Knopf, 1971. - Translation of 'La Flûte enchantée; opéra maçonnique'. Paris: R. Laffont, 1968
Translation of La flûte enchantée