Word: mozartã
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Favorite Song: Mozart??€™s requiem
...meantime, Levin—who was already playing Mozart??€™s 21st piano concerto with the Handel and Haydn society at Symphony Hall Friday and Sunday—filled in, and performed to an enthusiastic crowd...
Such is the message—and the basic plot—of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart??€™s Die Zauberflöte. Set to the libretto of Mozart??€™s fellow Freemason Emanuel Schikaneder, it offers such an idealistic view of human nature and interpersonal relationships that it seems in danger of being laughed to scorn by modern audiences. But on the March 17 closing night performance of its recent Die Zauberflöte production, New York’s Metropolitan Opera demonstrated just how powerful and convincing Mozart??€™s final opera really...
Such near-perfection is representative of Die Zauberflöte itself. Although it contains what is arguably Mozart??€™s most mature and varied music, as a piece of drama it doesn’t always attain the same sublimity. There is, for example, no explanation of why the evil Queen of the Night has at her disposal three virtuous wonder-boys who help Tamino thwart the Queen’s plans after leading him to Sarastro’s temple. Nor is it obvious why Sarastro, that paragon of priestly piety, employs as his prison warden...