Description
Magic Flute Fantasy
Based on themes from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
Composed by Michael Webster
For Flute, Bb Clarinet, and Piano
Published by Theodore Presser
Duration: 19 minutes
Includes score and parts
MAGIC FLUTE FANTASY is “Opera on a Budget,” a Reader's Digest version of The Magic Flute. Three musicians, without a stage, a set, or a singer in sight, take the listener through the plot of The Magic Flute from Overture to Finale. The highlights appear in sequential order in their original keys, the piccolo and the treble of the piano representing the magical instruments in the plot – flute and glockenspiel. Following a fantasized version of the overture are these numbers:
“Der Vogelfanger bin Ich ja” (I am indeed the bird catcher – Papageno)
“Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton” (How strong is your magic tone – Tamino)
“Alles fuhlt der Liebe Freuden” (All feel beloved joy – Monostatos)
“Der Holle Rache” (Hell's Vengeance – Queen of the Night”
“Ach, ich fuhl's” (Oh, I feel it – Pamina)
“Ein Madchen oder Weibchen” (A maiden or a wife – Papageno)
“Pa-pa-pa” (Papageno and papagena)
Final Chorus (Chorus)
At m. 205 there is an opportunity for the clarinetist to supply a short cadenza, or Eingang.