Papageno! (The Magic Flute)

Details

Papageno! Concert fantasy for one piano, four hands by Greg Anderson, based on Papageno’s arias in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 / Full score / Difficulty: Advanced / Duration: 4 minutes / Pages: 19 / Copyright: 2010, 2019 / Work number: 58 / Appears on the album When Words Fade / Spotify / Apple Music

Notes

Laughter welcome!

Papageno—“birdman” and resident clown of Mozart's psychedelic opera The Magic Flute—sings joyously at his eleventh-hour reunion with his true love, Papagena. In this mash-up of his felicitous arias, listen for the polarities; the lines between humor and menace, fantasy and reality, and the masculine and feminine blur into a four-hand pianistic whirl of flirtation.

— Greg Anderson & Elizabeth Joy Roe