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Subject(s)

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791—Zauberflöte [Browse]

Editor

Waldoff, Jessica Pauline, 1964- [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]
• Cambridge companions to music. Topics [More in this series]

Summary note

Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart's time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections - historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception - it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2023).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Jessica Waldoff
• Part I. Conception and Context. German Opera in Mozart's Vienna / Estelle Joubert ; The Magic Flute's Libretto and German Enlightenment Theater Reform / Martin Nedbal ; Emanuel Schikaneder and the Theater auf der Wieden / Lisa de Alwis ; The Magic Flute in 1791/ Austin Glatthorn
• Part II. Music, Text, and Action. Music as Stage-Craft / Julian Rushton ; Enduring Portraits : The Arias / Laurel E. Zeiss ; "All Together, Now"? Ensembles and Choruses in The Magic Flute / Nicholas Marston ; Musical Topics, Quotations, and References / Mark Ferraguto / Instrumentation, Magical and Mundane / Emily I. Dolan and Hayley Fenn ; The Dialogue as Indispensable / Catherine Coppola ; Music, Drama, and Spectacle in the Finales / John Platoff
• III. Approaches and Perspectives. Seeking Enlightenment in Mozart's Magic Flute / Richard Kramer ; Birdsong and Hieroglyphs : Exoticism and Enlightened Orientalism in The Magic Flute / Matthew Head ; Partial Derivatives : Sources, Types, and Tropes in The Magic Flute / Thomas Bauman ; Pamina, the Queen, and the Representation of Women / Jessica Waldoff ; Blackness and Whiteness in The Magic Flute - Reflections from Shakespeare Studies / Adeline Mueller
• IV. Reception, Interpretation, and Influence. Zauberflöte : A Cultural Phenomenon in an Age of Revolution / Ian Woodfield ; The Magic Flute in Biography, Criticism, and Literature / Simon P. Keefe ; The Elusive Compositional History of The Magic Flute / Daniel R. Melamed ; Staging The Magic Flute / Kate Hopkins ; Ingmar Bergman's Film Version of The Magic Flute / Dean Duncan.

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ISBN

• 9781108560559
• 1108560555
• 9781108629485
• 1108629482
• 9781108551328
• 1108551327

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