Pamina, the other Mozart...
On August 1, 2007 my grown children and I left the Twin Cities to perform for and participate in a birthday celebration the following day for my Mother in Washington, D.C. As we practiced at a neighbor of my sister’s where we were staying (they had a piano) we were interrupted by very puzzling and horrifying news reports of a bridge collapse in the Twin Cities. We rushed to a computer but the internet connection was extremely slow, and it was difficult to even get photos or information about the event. We were stunned — this is the bridge we used regularly to go from my house to my childrens’ homes. I had been on the bridge a day or so earlier. I recalled that there was a lot of equipment in the middle of the bridge. It seemed very strange at the time, but obviously, some repairs were needed…
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As if there weren’t enough mystery…:-0
Pamina, the other Mozart...
Some time ago, after it had been pointed out to me by a member of Monostatos’ Orchestra that the opera Die Zauberflote had a connection to my family and me, my first reaction was one of relief, as so much about our lives had seemed confusing, especially to my (at that time small) children. I thought, “Here are the answers. Wolf has encoded it all in the opera. I know the ending. Everything is ok.” I could not have been more mistaken.
The characters in the opera are clearly drawn, as they frequently are in opera. They are either very good, or very wicked. But is this so? At the time the opera was first performed, critics were horrified at some aspects of the libretto. The Queen of the Night, for example, did not seem to be clearly drawn. There almost seemed to be two of them — a good…
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An breath of fresh air, speaking out about some tangential things connected to the Mo-lockout
Le Chant du Rossignol...(song of the nightingale) 