Selected Magic Flute Bibliography

created by Vanessa Lanceley

Video:

Die Zauberflote. Wolfgang Amadeus. Munich: Unitel; [Netherlands]: Phillips; New York: PolyGram Record, 1988.

Books & Articles:

A.H. King: 'The Melodic Sources and Affinities of Die Zauberflote', The Musical Quarterly , xxxvi (1950), 241: repr in King (1955).

C. Benn: Mozart on Stage . London, 1946, 2/1947.

B. Brophy: Mozart the Dramatist: a New View of Mozart, his Operas and his age . London, 1967.

R.B. Moberly: Three Mozart Operas: Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute . London, 1967.

E.M. Batley: A Preface to the Magic Flute . London, 1969.

D. Koeningsberger: ' A New Metaphor for Mozart's Magic Flute ; European Studies Review , v(1975), 229-75.

C. Osborne: The Complete Operas of Mozart . London, 1978.

E.J. Dent: Mozart's Operas: a Critical Study . London 1913, 2/1947.

P. Branscombe: ' " Die Zauberflote": some Textual and Interpretative Problems' Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, xcii (1965-6), 45.

R. Dumesnil: Le Don Juan de Mozart . Paris, 1927.

Recordings:
B. Bonney (sop-Pamina), S. Jo (sop-Queen of the Night), K. Streit (ten-Tamino), G. Cachemaille, (b-bar-Papageno), K. Sigmundsson (bass-Sarastro), A. Ostman (cnd), Drottingholm Court Theatre Orch & Chorus
L'Oiseau-Lyre 2- 440085

Della Casa, Koth, Sciutti, Simoneau, Berry, Bohme, G. Szell (cnd), Vienna PO & State Opera Chorus (rec. live at the Salzburg Festival, July 27, 1959 )
Melodram (Conaisseur) 2- MEL 27505

R. Grist (sop), E. Gruberova (sop), E. Mathis (sop), R. Kollo (ten), G. Unger (ten), H. Prey (bar), J. Van Dam (b-bar), P. Meven (bass), H. von Karajan (cnd), Vienna PO & State Opera (rec. July 26, 1974 )
Arkadia 2

Grucerova, Salminen, Blochwitz, Bonney, Scharinger, Schmid, Keller, Hampson, Harnoncourt, Zurich Opera House Orch & Chorus [G]
Teldec 2-2292-427

Jo, Ziesak, Heilmann, Kraus, Moll, Solti, Vienna PO & State Opera Chorus
London 2- 433210-2

W. Upp (sop), I. Seefried (sop), P. Klein (ten), W. ludwig (ten), K. Schmitt- Walter (bar), J. Greindl (bass), Paul Schoffler (sgr), W. Furtwangler (cnd), Vienna PO, Vienna State Opera Chorus (rec. 1949 )
Music & Arts 3- CD 882

Mathis, Ott, Perry, Tomowa-Stintow, Baltsa, Schwarz, Araiza, Hornik, Van Dam, Karajan, Berlin PO, Deutsche Oper. Chorus [G]
Deutsche Grammophon #- 410967-2

Seefried, Lipp, Loose, Dermota, Kunz, Weber, Karajan, Vienna PO, Musikfreunde Chorus [without dialogue; G] (rec.1950 )
Angel (Studio) 2- CDHB 69631

Jancwitz, Popp, Putz, Gedda, Berry, Frick, Klemperer, Philharmonia Orch & Chorus [without dialogue; G]
Angel (Studio) 2- CDMB 69971

Te Kanawa, Studer, Lind, Araiza, van Dam, Ramey, Marriner, Academy of St. Martin- in-the-Fields & Ambrosian Opera Chorus [G]
Philips 2- 426276-2

P. Anders (ten) (other artists unknown )-sels. unknown ('Peter Anders, Vol. 3") Entfuhrung (sels); Micolai: Lustige Witwe (sels); Offenbach:Contes; M. Schilling:Glockenlieder
Berlin Classics BER 2168

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