The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108446846)

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.

Author: Jessica Waldoff
ISBN-10: 1108446841
ISBN-13: 9781108446846
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.80d