The Cambridge companion to the Magic Flute / edited by Jessica Waldoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waldoff, Jessica Pauline, 1964- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to music.

Cambridge companions to music. Topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

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

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

ISBN:

9781108560559

1108560555

9781108629485

1108629482

9781108551328

1108551327