What type of opera is The Magic Flute?
singspiel
Like Mozart’s few other German-language operas—including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Abduction from the Seraglio—The Magic Flute is a singspiel, a form that includes spoken dialogue between the musical numbers. (See also operetta.)
Why is Mozart’s Queen of the Night aria so famous?
Set in a terrifying D minor, this aria is particularly memorable because of its extraordinarily wide and demanding two octave vocal range. Mozart wrote it with his sister-in-law, Josepha Hofer, in mind. Hofer, who was 32 at the time of The Magic Flute’s 1791 premiere, was known for her extraordinary upper register.
Is Magic Flute a comic opera?
It’s a Singspiel opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Emanuel Schikaneder decided that Singspiel (a German language comic opera with singing and dialogue), would best suit their brand new opera. Like most Singspiel operas, The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) features comedy, magic and fantastical creatures.
What tempo is The Magic Flute?
Song Metrics The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night’s Aria (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) is asong byDaniel Tidwellwith a tempo of137 BPM.It can also be used half-time at69 BPM or double-time at274 BPM. The track runs3 minutes and 3 secondslong with akey and aminormode.
What is the composition of Queen of the Night aria?
Hear, gods of revenge, hear the mother’s oath! Metrically, the text consists of a quatrain in iambic pentameter (unusual for this opera which is mostly in iambic tetrameter), followed by a quatrain in iambic trimeter, then a final pentameter couplet.
What is Papageno’s profession?
birdcatcher
Yeah, he’s a birdcatcher, not exactly an everyday occupation in Mozart’s day or ours, and he’s usually costumed in something green and feathery. But it doesn’t take long to figure out that he’s one of the most down-to-earth human beings in opera, an avian Everyman.