Opera title: | Die Zauberflöte |
Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Language: | German |
Synopsis: | Die Zauberflöte Synopsis |
Libretto: | Die Zauberflöte Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Papageno |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 1.04 |
Previous scene: | Wo bin ich? Ist es Phantasie |
Next scene: | He da! Was da! |
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (THE MAGIC FLUTE)
Opera in 2 acts
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Emmanuel Schikaneder
First performance: Freihaustheater, Vienna, 30 September 1791
THE MAGIC FLUTE premièred a couple of months before Mozart’s death. A mixture of Freemasonry and fairy story, it looks forward to the folksy Romanticism of Weber’s FREISCHÜTZ and the lofty beauty of Wagner.
Tamino, a handsome prince, is rescued from a serpent by three ladies in the service of the Star-Blazing Queen. She asks him to rescue her daughter Pamina, whom the evil sorcerer Sarastro has kidnapped. Tamino and the birdcatcher Papageno set out, but learn that Sarastro is good and the Queen of the Night evil. Tamino and Pamina have passed through various trials and marry; the simple Papageno finds happiness with the bird-woman Papagena; and the Queen and her minions fall into darkness.
“Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja”
Papageno the birdcatcher is a merry fellow – but his life would be better if he had a girlfriend.
Papageno (baritone): Walter Berry
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
London 1964
PAPAGENO
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja,
Stets lustig, heissa! hopsasa!
Der Vogelfänger ist bekannt
Bey Alt und Jung im ganzen Land.
Weiss mit dem Locken umzugeh'n,
Und mich aufs Pfeifen zu versteh'n.
Drum kann ich froh und lustig seyn;
Denn alle Vögel sind ja mein.
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja,
Stets lustig, heissa! hopsasa!
Der Vogelfänger ist bekannt,
Bey Alt und Jung im ganzen Land.
Ein Netz für Mädchen möchte ich;
Ich fing' sie dutzendweis für mich.
Dann sperrte sie bey mir ein,
Und alle Mäd en wären mein.
PAPAGENO
The bird-catcher, that's me,
always cheerful, hip hooray!
As a bird-catcher I'm known
to young and old throughout the land.
I know how to set about luring
and how to be good at piping.
That's why I can be merry and cheerful,
for all the birds are surely mine.
The bird-catcher, that's me,
always cheerful, hip hooray!
As a bird-catcher I'm known
to young and old throughout the land.
I'd like a net for girls,
I'd catch them for myself by the dozen!
Then I'd lock them up with me,
and all the girls would be mine.
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