(dair HOO-luh RAH-kuh) and was based on a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, who played the bird-catcher Papageno ("papa"-GAY-noh) at its premiere.
Theodor Adorno was wounded by Walter Benjamin's negative opinion of his fragmentary musical composition in this genre that was inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A series of in6luential early works in this genre were collaborations between Christian Felix Weisse and the pedagogue Johann Adam Hiller. The elder Johann André wrote proli3cally in this genre, including a work that inspired one based on the same text by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; that Mozart composition in this genre features a role tailored for Caterina Cavalieri including the aria "Martern aller Arten" (MAR-tahn all-uh ART-un). Another Mozart composition in this genre features the arias "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" (oh TSIT-ruh NISHT, "mine" LEE-bah "ZONE") and "Der Hölle Rache" (dair HOO-luh RAH-kuh) and was based on a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, who played the bird-catcher Papageno ("papa"-GAY-noh) at its premiere. For 10 points, name this genre of German comic opera exempli3ed by The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Magic Flute.
Theodor Adorno was wounded by Walter Benjamin's negative opinion of his fragmentary musical composition in this genre that was inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Singspiel (ZING-shpeel) [or Lustspiel mit Gesang; or Schauspiel mit Gesang; or Komödie mit Musik; prompt on German opera; prompt on comic opera]