La Flûte enchantée

La Flûte enchantée, entitled Die Zauberflöte in its original German version and The Magic Flute in English, is an opera in two acts with a score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder and Karl Ludwig Gieseke . It had its world premiere in Vienna on 30 September 1791, and it was very successful from the start in the Austrian capital, where it reached its 83d performance on 23 November 1793. Plans were made to stage it in Paris before long, but the government in France…