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N - The Magic Flute
Plot
Original Production
Key Relationships
"Magic Flute" Overview Essay
Freemasons and Rosicrucians
NE - Welcome!
E - Other Music
A Few Little Words About the Motet
Facts and Fun about Madrigals
The Mass
Origins and Flourishing of the Concerto
What is a Requiem?
3 Lenten Works
Haydn: A Tribute
Allegri: Miserere
Bach: Cantata 4
Bach: Cantata 8
Bach: Chaconne in D minor
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Bach: Motet 6
Bach: Prelude and Fuge in B-minor
Bach: Passion According to St. John
Brahms: A German Requiem
Durufle: Requiem
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Faure: Requiem
Handel: Christmas Portion of Messiah
Liszt: Évocation à la Chapelle Sistine"
Poulenc: Quatre Motets
Program Notes: 11-20-09
Program Notes: 11-16-12
Program Notes: 4-18-14
Program Notes: 11-21-14
Program Notes: 4-3-15
Program Notes: 3-25-16
Program Notes: 4-14-17
SE - Original Compositions
Trinity "Hodie" Service
"Peace I Leave With You"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Epiphany"
S - Roses
Introduction
Sources for Old Roses
Useful and Interesting Rose Books
Around the Garden
2012 Rose Garden
BOURBON
CENTIFOLIA
DAMASK
FLORIBUNDA
GROUND
HYBRID MUSK
HYBRID PERPETUAL
NOISETTE
OLD SHRUB
PIMPINELLIFOLIA HYBRID
POLYANTHA
PORTLAND
RUGOSA
SW - Chamber Music
9/98 Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
10/93 London Baroque
4/92 Shura Cherkassky
3/92 The Castle Trio
3/89 Schotten-Collier Duo
1/89 The Colorado Quartet
10/88 Talich String Quartet
9/87 The Mozartean Players
11/86 Philomel
4/86 The Berlin Piano Trio
2/86 Ivan Moravec
W - Other Mozart
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Church Sonatas
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Magnificat from Vesperae de Dominica
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart's Requiem and Freemasonry
Sampling of Solo and Chamber Works from Youth to Full Maturity
Two Works of Mozart: Mass in C and Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation"
NW - Kaleidoscope
Whimsy
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Egg Art
Exceptional Artifacts
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Travel
Alfred Whittaker Introduction
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Alfred Whittaker CV
Alfred Whittaker Essays
Multidisciplinarity in Education and Research
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"T
HE MAGIC FLUTE
"
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
by Judith Eckelmeyer
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Drawing of Mozart in silverpoint, made by Dora Stock during Mozart's visit to Dresden, April 1789.
Librettists:
Emanuel Schikaneder, Karl Ludwig Giesecke, and likely others.
Libretto published 1791 by Ignaz Alberti, Vienna
Emanuel Schikaneder circa 1784
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
Location:
Theater auf der Wieden, outside the walls of Vienna
Theater auf der Wieden
Date of Premiere:
September 30, 1791
Playbill for Original Production
Stage Director:
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
Portrait of Carl Ludwig Giesecke by Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1813
CHARACTERS AND PERFORMERS IN THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Sarastro
(bass), leader of the Initiates in the Temple of Isis and Osiris: Franz Xaver Gerl
Tamino
(tenor), a prince: Benedikt Schack
Speaker
in the Temple of Wisdom (bass): Mr. Winter
First Priest
in the Temple of Wisdom (bass): Urban Schikaneder (elder brother of Emanuel)
Second Priest
in the Temple of Wisdom (tenor): Johann Michael Kistler
Third Priest
in the Temple of Wisdom (speaking role): Christian Hieronymus Moll
Queen of the Night
(soprano): Josepha Hofer, sister of Mozart’s wife Constanze
Pamina
, daughter of the Queen of the Night (soprano): Anna Gottlieb
First Lady
(soprano): Miss Klöpfer
Second Lady
(soprano): Miss Hofmann
Third Lady
(alto): Elizabeth Schack, wife of Benedikt Schack
Papageno
(baritone): Emanuel Schikaneder
An Old Woman (Papagena)
(soprano): Barbara Gerl, wife of Franz Xaver Gerl
Monostatos
, Pamina’s overseer in Sarastro’s realm (tenor): Johann Joseph Nouseul
First Slave
: Karl Ludwig Giesecke (aka Georg Metzler)
Second Slave
: Wilhelm Frasel
Third Slave
: Johann Nikolaus Starke
First Boy
(soprano): Anna (Nannette) Schikaneder, Urban’s daughter
Second Boy
(soprano): Young Tuscher
Third Boy
(alto): Young Handelgruber
Chorus
of Slaves, Priests, and Followers of Sarastro
Judith Eckelmeyer ©2015
Home
N - The Magic Flute
Plot
Original Production
Key Relationships
"Magic Flute" Overview Essay
Freemasons and Rosicrucians
NE - Welcome!
E - Other Music
A Few Little Words About the Motet
Facts and Fun about Madrigals
The Mass
Origins and Flourishing of the Concerto
What is a Requiem?
3 Lenten Works
Haydn: A Tribute
Allegri: Miserere
Bach: Cantata 4
Bach: Cantata 8
Bach: Chaconne in D minor
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Bach: Motet 6
Bach: Prelude and Fuge in B-minor
Bach: Passion According to St. John
Brahms: A German Requiem
Durufle: Requiem
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Faure: Requiem
Handel: Christmas Portion of Messiah
Liszt: Évocation à la Chapelle Sistine"
Poulenc: Quatre Motets
Program Notes: 11-20-09
Program Notes: 11-16-12
Program Notes: 4-18-14
Program Notes: 11-21-14
Program Notes: 4-3-15
Program Notes: 3-25-16
Program Notes: 4-14-17
SE - Original Compositions
Trinity "Hodie" Service
"Peace I Leave With You"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Epiphany"
S - Roses
Introduction
Sources for Old Roses
Useful and Interesting Rose Books
Around the Garden
2012 Rose Garden
BOURBON
CENTIFOLIA
DAMASK
FLORIBUNDA
GROUND
HYBRID MUSK
HYBRID PERPETUAL
NOISETTE
OLD SHRUB
PIMPINELLIFOLIA HYBRID
POLYANTHA
PORTLAND
RUGOSA
SW - Chamber Music
9/98 Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
10/93 London Baroque
4/92 Shura Cherkassky
3/92 The Castle Trio
3/89 Schotten-Collier Duo
1/89 The Colorado Quartet
10/88 Talich String Quartet
9/87 The Mozartean Players
11/86 Philomel
4/86 The Berlin Piano Trio
2/86 Ivan Moravec
W - Other Mozart
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Church Sonatas
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Magnificat from Vesperae de Dominica
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart's Requiem and Freemasonry
Sampling of Solo and Chamber Works from Youth to Full Maturity
Two Works of Mozart: Mass in C and Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation"
NW - Kaleidoscope
Whimsy
>
Egg Art
Exceptional Artifacts
Garden Ephemera
Musical Rarities
Nature
Reading Recommendations
Travel
Alfred Whittaker Introduction
>
Alfred Whittaker CV
Alfred Whittaker Essays
Multidisciplinarity in Education and Research
Contact