Stage set for Mozart's Magic Flute
by SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich, Gouache, 463 x 616 mm
One of the most impressive incunabula of the intellectual enthusiasm in the Romantic period for the Orient (and especially for Egypt) was Schinkel’s stage design for Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. For the Queen of the Night it shows the Egyptian starry sky.
Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 3 minutes):
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberfl�te (The Magic Flute), Act 2, Chorus of the Priests