'' '' 'The Magic Flute' '' '' (German '' '' 'Die Zauberflöte' '' '') is a two-act '' singspiel ''. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Justifiable or not, this is easy enough to accomplish in a singspiel which is made up of separate numbers divided by dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Native dramatic tastes, once fostered by minnesingers and strolling players, were kept alive by the "singspiel," or song-play, composed of spoken dialogue and popular song, which furnished the actual beginnings of German national music drama. From Wordnik.com. [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference
However, Mozart managed to take the idiom of the singspiel and innovate with some really brilliant moments. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Die Entführung aus dem Serail is, at first blush, a very nice singspiel - albeit a bit heavy on the Turkish stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Most of Mozart's operas are in Italian, but this is a singspiel in German like "The Magic Flute" with impossibly difficult arias, lots of spoken dialogue, and an abundance of comic schtick. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Opera 2009 Fall Preview] Reference
So it was rather brilliant of the director James Marvel, bringing Mozart's unfinished singspiel "Zaide" to the Wolf Trap Opera Company's stage on Friday night, to find a contemporary equivalent in science fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Midgette revisits Wolf Trap's staging of Mozart's 'Zaide'] Reference
Of all the brokers, managers, and investment bankers in the Bull&Bear with whom you might hold mental hands at this critical, even historic moment; before whom you might pour out your singspiel of personal defeat, why did you have to end up at a table with these two ... outcasts?. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
In this much-awaited continuation of his Mozart cycle, Rene Jacobs approaches the famous singspiel "The Magic Flute" as if it were a radio play, including all the spoken dialogue, often with musical commentary from the keyboard, and sound effects from a veritable battery of percussion. From Wordnik.com. [Best of 2010: Classical music] Reference
Please prove you're human (needed to reduce spam): may be it is a singspiel of bertold brecht? who knows. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Serving] Reference
In 1791, Mozart and fellow Mason Emanuel Schikaneder collaborated on a singspiel that premiered on September 30, 1791. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
Humperdinck liked what he'd crafted, sought feedback and determined he'd stitch together a singspiel (literally "song play"). From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
I'm sure Mozart himself would have enjoyed a good laugh at Opera Atelier's hyper, zany and pretty production of his singspiel. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
It's a strange hybrid - in the early scenes, singspiel and comic dialogue, then evolving into melodrama and, finally, into oratorio. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
The piece is not grand opera (all music), but singspiel, the German term for a kind of higher-toned operetta (musical numbers with spoken dialogue). From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Among the many offerings of the Kids Euro Festival was a free performance of Mozart's singspiel "Bastien und Bastienne," presented Saturday morning by the Austrian Embassy. From Wordnik.com. [Ionarts] Reference
This week we continue with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, a singspiel that reflects a crude vision of Islamic Turkey that fares poorly under the principles of the European Enlightment. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
The five remaining titles are in turn bracketed by "The Abduction From the Seraglio" and "The Magic Flute," his sublime examples of the German singspiel, with musical numbers bridged by spoken dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
More a singspiel, with arias interspersed by spoken monologue, "Dissonance" found the three characters hardly interacting so much as remaining isolated figures addressing the audience in monologues or arias. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
The prominence of the first movement bassoon part almost equals the dark flourishes in the keyboard, competing as it does with a large ensemble rife with harmonic and metric clashes much at odds with the amiable singspiel/opera. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
But there's a problem, rooted in Jacobs 'faithful presentation of Schikaneder's singspiel libretto, the dialogue for which is at times so quietly reproduced as to be barely audible - which makes the first half of each Act, heavy with exposition, rather tough going before their subsequent resolutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Its form is German singspiel, with musical numbers set off by spoken dialog like Mozart’s The Magic Flute, but with a very lengthy text. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
A performance of Mozart's eternally fresh singspiel, "Die. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
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