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in fact there are SIX Operas around the ONE famous opera Magic Flute!

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The Labyrinth

Das Labyrinth oder Der Kampf mit den Elementen. Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (“The Labyrinth or The Struggle with the Elements. The Magic Flute’s Second Part”) is a “grand heroic-comic opera” in two acts[1] composed in 1798 by Peter von Winter to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The opera is a sequel of Mozart‘s The Magic Flute.

The opera premiered at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 12 June 1798. Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozart’s sister-in-law Josepha Hofer-Mayer. Schikaneder was the librettist of Mozart’s opera and he was considered to have been “one of the most original and most influential theatre persons of his time”.[2] Both artists were reprising their roles from The Magic Flute.

Alexandra Liedtke, the director of the Salzburg Festival production in 2012, interpreted the story and Schikaneder’s libretto “as one [of] the great fairy tales of history […], in which the emblematic and the playfulness are standing in the limelights”.

The opera was then also performed at the Theater an der Wien and the Konzerthaus Berlin (1803), the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (1806), the Staatstheater Nürnberg (1807) and other venues. In 1978, there was a production without spoken dialogue in an unauthentic musical arrangement, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, directed by August Everding, stage design by Jürgen Rose in the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, and in September 2002 it was performed at Chemnitz Opera.

In August 2012, the opera was presented for the first time at the Salzburg Festival, in the courtyard of the residence of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, conducted by Ivor Bolton and directed by Alexandra Liedtke.[3][4]

In October 2013, the opera was performed in USA for the first time, by New York City’s Amore Opera, the small opera company which emerged after Amato Opera closed.[5]

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Frankfurt
HAB
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Stuttgart
Berlin
Florence
Munich
Hamburg
LOC

LOC

LOC – Library of Congress

THIS was a surprise! wikipedia said the Darmstadt copy had been burnt in the war. But thanks to a hint of the DNB – (German National Library) I found the Darmstadt copy in Washington!

Frankfurt

Frankfurt

HAB

HAB

HAB – Herzog August Bibliothek D-Wolfenbüttel

CCC result

CCC result

Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Berlin

Berlin

Florence

Florence

Firenze conservatory

Munich

Munich

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Hamburg

Hamburg

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