As if there weren’t enough mystery…:-0
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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Le Chant du Rossignol...(song of the nightingale) 