Das Labyrinth

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

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• Z0 The philosopher´s stone – Magic island
• Z1 The Magic Flute
• Z2 The Labyrinth
• Z3 Sarastro
• Z4 The Pyramids of Babylon
• Z5 Das Labyrinth (II) Franck Adrian Holzkamp, Musik | Gerd Scherm, Libretto 07.07.2020

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The Magic Flute, Part Two. The Labyrinth or The Battle with the Elements (also: The Second Part of The Magic Flute) is the title of an opera by Emanuel Schikaneder with music by composer Peter von Winter and is the earliest opera sequel to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

The libretto of this “great heroic-comic” opera was written by Mozart’s librettist Schikaneder, who had already written the text for The Magic Flute (1791). Composed in 1797/1798, the premiere took place on June 12, 1798, at the Wiedner Theater in Vienna. The cast included: Schikaneder himself as Papageno, Josepha Hofer as the Queen of the Night (sung by her sister Aloisia Lange in Frankfurt am Main in 1806), Josepha’s second husband Sebastian Mayer as Sarastro, and Mozart’s posthumous brother-in-law Jakob Haibel as Monostatos.[2]

The plot of this opera (for further sequels, see below) begins shortly after the end of The Magic Flute and depicts the rivalry and renewed battle between the Queen of the Night and Sarastro on the one hand, and the separation, testing (in further trials with the elements earth and air) and reunion of the couple Tamino and Pamina on the other, as well as the events surrounding the couple Papageno and Papagena; these, too, are separated and reunited, and Papageno, in particular, is exposed to various temptations.

In the first act, Pamina is kidnapped by her mother at the wedding celebration to be married to Tipheus. Papageno is separated from Papagena and paired with a Moor. In the second act, Papageno finds Pamina for Tamino, and they both pass their final test. Papageno returns to Papagena, Tamino defeats Tipheus, the Queen of the Night, and her followers are chained to a rock.