(MOZART): Zaide*

(MOZART): Zaide* 27 January. Frankfort Original Text by J. A. Schachtner, re-written by K. Gollmick. Two acts. This German Singspiel had been written probably in 1779, for J. Böhm’s troupe; Mozart left it unfinished and without title (which was supplied by André when he published the score in 1838). Of Schachtner’s libretto (on its source, see A. Einstein , in Acta Musicologica, Vol. viii, 1936) only the lyrics were extant. For the Frankfort 1866 production the lost dialogue was re-written by…