The Magic Flute
Appearance
The Magic Flute | |
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Opera bi W. A. Mozart | |
The arrival o the Queen of the Night. Stage set bi Karl Friedrich Schinkel for an 1815 production | |
Native title | Die Zauberflöte |
Librettist | Emanuel Schikaneder |
Leid | German |
Premiere | 30 September 1791 Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna |
The Magic Flute (German: [Die Zauberflöte] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), K. 620, is an opera in twa acts bi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tae a German libretto bi Emanuel Schikaneder. The wirk is in the form o a Singspiel, a popular form that includit baith sangin an spoken dialogue.[a] The wirk premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, juist twa month afore the componer's premature daith.