The Cambridge Companion to the Magic Flute

By: Waldoff, Jessica Pauline

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108446841
• ISBN13: 9781108446846
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"