Magic flute

For more than two centuries, the Opera Magic Flute has remained one of the most popular works of the outstanding Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto, that is, the literary text of the “magic flute ", wrote the German singer and playwright Johann Emanuel Shichedir. In search of the plot, he turned to the collection of fantastic poems "Ginnistan, or the chosen fairy tales about fairies and spirits", published by German writer Christoph Martin Viland. In the third volume of this collection, the magical fairy tale "Lulu, or the Magic Flute" (1789), which became the basis for the future opera masterpiece, was printed. Very often the author of this fairy tale is called the publisher of the collection of Viland, but in fact it belongs to the pen of his son-in-law, the pastor of Augustus Jacob Libeskind (1758-1793).
In order to introduce the young reader to the content of the beautiful opera of the great composer, the famous illustrator Boris Aleksandrovich Dekherev (1908-1993) and his sister is the famous translator Nina Alexandrovna