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