MAGIC FLUTE, THE

(Die Zauberfléte) Composer: WOLFGANG A MADE US MOZART Book by EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER First performance: Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna, September 30, 1791 2 acts. In A HYPOTHETICAL Eoypt of antiquity, the daughter of an evil Queen has been taken from her mother by the high priest of Isis, Sarastro. Tamino attempts to return Pamina, the daughter, to her mother in gratitude for the debt he owes her since her hand ladies saved him from a snake. Papageno, the bird-catcher, Sarastro fascinates Tamino, and instead of freeing the accompanies Pamina. daughter of the Queen he studies to become a disciple of Sarastro. Finally, however, he is married to Pamina and the evil Queen of the Night is thwarted.