Opera title: | Die Zauberflöte |
Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Language: | German |
Synopsis: | Die Zauberflöte Synopsis |
Libretto: | Die Zauberflöte Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Papagena / Papageno |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Baritone |
Act: | 2.31 |
Previous scene: | Papagena Papagena Papagena! |
Next scene: | Nur stille! stille! |
"Papagena, Papageno!" duet from The Magic Flute / Die Zauberflöte (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alternative title "Pa-pa-pa".
Papagena: soprano Inga Lohne-Otterstad (14y)
Papageno: baritone Aksel Rykkvin (15y)
Piano: Natalie Gourman
Live performance during the opera edition of the music competition program "Stjärnornas stjärna" ("The Star of Stars") on Swedish TV4, April 14, 2018.
Aksel and Inga are both in the Children's Chorus of the National Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and in the same classical music talent class at school (Musikk på Majorstuen skole).
Huge thanks to the Children's Chorus team at the Opera: director Gunnar Bergstrøm, Head/conductor Edle Stray-Pedersen and voice coach Marianne Willumsen Lewis who all helped shape this performance!
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PAPAGENO.
Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Papagena!
PAPAGENA
Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Papageno.
BEYDE
Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Pa - Papagena! / Papageno!
PAPAGENO
Bist du mir nun ganz gegeben?
PAPAGENA
Nun bin ich dir ganz gegeben.
PAPAGENO
Nun so sey mein liebes Weibchen!
PAPAGENA
Nun so sey mein Herzenstäubchen!
BEYDE
Welche Freude wird das seyn,
Wenn die Götter uns bedenken,
Unsrer Liebe Kinder schenken,
So liebe kleine Kinderlein.
PAPAGENO
Erst einen kleinen Papageno.
PAPAGENA
Dann eine kleine Papagena.
PAPAGENO
Dann wieder einen Papageno.
PAPAGENA
Dann wieder eine Papagena.
BEYDE
Es ist das höchste der Gefühle,
Wenn viele, viele, viele, viele,
Pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, geno
Pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, gena
Der Segen froher Eltern seyn;
Wenn dann die kleinen um sie spielen,
Die Eltern gleiche Freude fühlen,
Sich ihres Ebenbildes freun.
O welch ein Glück kann grösser seyn?
PAPAGENO
Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena!
PAPAGENA
Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papageno!
PAPAGENO
Are you really all mine now?
PAPAGENA
Now I really am all yours.
PAPAGENO
So now be my darling little wife!
PAPAGENA
So now be the little dove of my heart!
PAPAGENO, PAPAGENA
What a pleasure that will be,
when the gods remember us,
crown our love with children,
such dear little children!
PAPAGENO
First a little Papageno!
PAPAGENA
Then a little Papagena!
PAPAGENO
Then another Papageno!
PAPAGENA
Then another Papagena!
PAPAGENO, PAPAGENA
Papageno! Papagena!
It is the greatest feeling
that many, many
Pa-Pa-Papagenos,
Pa-Pa-Papagenas
may be a blessing to their parents.
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