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Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Kenneth Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Zauberflöte had its premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30th September 1791, less than ten weeks before Mozart's death. It has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular of all his works and has enchanted generations of opera-goers of all ages. In a fairy-tale allegory imbued wi ...Show more
Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart's best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais's play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first rank. Its combination of wit, acute psychological obse ...Show more
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