Taking the role of the baritone, what is the name of the professional bird catcher in Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'?
"The Magic Flute The Magic Flute (German: ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ""Singspiel"", a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work was premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer's premature death. In this opera, the Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high"
"Benedikt Schack Benedikt Emanuel Schack () (7 February 175810 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"". Benedikt Schack (also spelled as Žák, Ziak, Cziak or Schak) was born on 7 February 1758 in Mirotice, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic, then part of the Habsburg monarchy). Like Joseph and Michael Haydn, he worked as a chorister as a child, singing from 1773 in the cathedral in Prague, then moved to Vienna (1775) to study medicine, philosophy and"
"at his mother's home in Oklahoma City, of complications from AIDS. Stephen Dickson Stephen Dickson (16 February 1951 – 18 October 1991) was an American baritone who had an active career in operas and concerts from 1972 through 1990. He was active with the United States's most important opera companies during the 1980s, sharing the stage with many notable singers like Luciano Pavarotti, Jessye Norman, and Renata Scotto. He was particularly admired for his portrayal of Papageno in ""The Magic Flute"", a role he sang throughout Europe and the United States. At the time of his premature death, Dickson had"
"Stephen Dickson Stephen Dickson (16 February 1951 – 18 October 1991) was an American baritone who had an active career in operas and concerts from 1972 through 1990. He was active with the United States's most important opera companies during the 1980s, sharing the stage with many notable singers like Luciano Pavarotti, Jessye Norman, and Renata Scotto. He was particularly admired for his portrayal of Papageno in ""The Magic Flute"", a role he sang throughout Europe and the United States. At the time of his premature death, Dickson had just reached the pinnacle of his career, having only recently gained"
"elements and traditional fairy-tale themes (see ""Libretto of The Magic Flute""). Schikaneder took the role of Papageno—a character reflecting the Hanswurst tradition, and thus suited to his skills—at the premiere. According to the dramatist Ignaz Franz Castelli, Schikaneder also may have given advice to Mozart concerning the musical setting of his libretto: The late bass singer Sebastian Mayer told me that Mozart had originally written the duet where Papageno and Papagena first see each other quite differently from the way in which we now hear it. Both originally cried out ""Papageno!"", ""Papagena!"" a few times in amazement. But when Schikaneder"
"(1990), listed below. Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him ""one of the most talented theatre men of his era"". Schikaneder was born in Straubing in Bavaria to Joseph Schickeneder and Juliana Schiessl. Both of his parents worked as domestic servants and were extremely poor. They had a total of four children: Urban (born 1746), Johann Joseph"
"Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him ""one of the most talented theatre men of his era"". Schikaneder was born in Straubing in Bavaria to Joseph Schickeneder and Juliana Schiessl. Both of his parents worked as domestic servants and were extremely poor. They had a total of four children: Urban (born 1746), Johann Joseph (died at age"
"leading opera venues in Germany and Austria. Such important overseas theatres as The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and La Scala, Milan, heard him sing during the 1930s, when his international reputation attained its peak. The operatic role for which he is perhaps best remembered is that of Papageno, in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"". (In 1937-38 he recorded a complete Papageno for HMV, with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.) His stage repertoire, however, included most of the standard roles for the lighter baritone voice, including those of Wagner. Indeed, he was invited to perform at the"
"role has been followed by, among others the title role in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" in 2003 and Figaro in Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" in 2006. With ""Don Giovanni"" he made a very successful debut at La Scala in Milan, opening the 2011–2012 season. Mattei lives in Bromma, Sweden. He is married and has two daughters. Mattei can also play the piano, the accordion and the double bass. Peter Mattei Peter Mattei (born 3 June 1965) is a Swedish operatic baritone, particularly known for his performances in Mozart's baritone roles. Peter Mattei studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music."
"Erwin Sembach Erwin Schück (1879 – 1919), better known by his stage name Erwin Sembach, was an opera singer with the Vienna Volksoper during its earliest years of producing operas, immediately before and during World War I. His greatest roles there were Masetto in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", Papageno in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", and Krušina in Smetana's ""The Bartered Bride"". Erwin Sembach was born on 18 October 1879 in Böhmisch Leipa (now Česká Lípa in the Czech Republic) to parents Adolf Schück and Katharina Schreiber who owned and operated a millinery and accessories shop in the town. Sembach was the"
"in the Schikaneder troupe, and performed the role of Papagena at the ""Magic Flute"" premiere. She went with Gerl to Brno and Mannheim, and died there shortly after giving birth to their second child. Franz Xaver Gerl Franz Xaver Gerl ( – ) was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"". Gerl was born on in Andorf (then Bavaria, since 1780 part of Austria). He sang as a chorister as a child in Salzburg; the ""New Grove"" asserts that he was probably the"
"Mikael Samuelson Mikael Gustaf Lennart Samuelson (born 9 March 1951) is a Swedish baritone opera singer, actor and composer. Samuelson is the son of the musician and music arranger Bror Samuelson. Mikael Samuelson has been considered as one of the greatest Swedish musical performers and composers, especially for his versions of the songs of Evert Taube and Fred Åkerström. Samuelson studied singing, conducting and violin at Musikhögskolan in the '70s, and is a well-known face in the Swedish musical and theatre industry. During his youth, he performed at Norrlandsoperan, and sang the parts of Papageno in ""The Magic Flute"" and"
"Markus Marquardt Markus Marquardt (born 1970) is a German bass-baritone. Born in Düsseldorf, Marquardt studied singing with Werner Lechte at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. He appeared in Wagner's ""Parsifal"", conducted by Simon Rattle, in Amsterdam and in ""Elektra"" with Lorin Maazel at the Salzburg Festival. From 1996 to 2000, Marquardt worked at the Stuttgart State Opera, including Papageno in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" and the title roles in ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and Verdi's ""Rigoletto"". Since 2000, he has been a member of the Semperoper in Dresden. He also appeared as a guest at the Hamburg State Opera, the Bregenz"
"Schikaneder is known to history as the librettist and impresario of Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"", written in 1791. In 1780, he had brought his theatrical trouple to Salzburg for an extended stay, and during this time befriended the Mozart family. He is recorded as participating in ""Bölzlschiessen"" with them, and the target that portrayed him was based on his reputation as a womanizer. According to Schroeder it shows him ""trifling with one woman while another waits patiently for him to come to her."" While away on his job hunting trip, Wolfgang wrote to his father specifying the form of"
"(1967), Moscow, Munich and Oslo. Erik Saedén Carl Erik Sædén (born 3 September 1924 in Vänersborg, died 3 November 2009, was a Swedish bass-baritone whose career was principally centred on Stockholm, both on the operatic stage as well as the concert platform. He made a few recordings and appeared in the 1975 Bergman film of ""The magic flute"". Sædén studied at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm from 1943–52, his teachers there including Arne Sunnegårdh, Martin Öhman and Wilhelm Freund. He received degrees in higher cantor and organist degree from the Royal College of Music in 1946, and a degree in"
"""Fidelio"" and ""La bohème"". In March 1960, Kertész was invited to become General Music Director of the Augsburg Opera—a post especially created for him. There he conducted performances of Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", ""The Abduction from the Seraglio"", ""Così fan tutte"", and ""The Marriage of Figaro"", earning himself a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Mozart's work. With exhilarating performances of Verdi's ""Rigoletto"", ""Don Carlos"", ""Otello"" and ""Falstaff"", and Richard Strauss's ""Salome"", ""Arabella"", and ""Der Rosenkavalier"", Kertész also proved himself a master of the finest of Italian Romantic operas. Invited to the Salzburg Festival, he conducted ""The Abduction"
"The Magic Flute in 2016. She made her USA opera debut with the Arizona Opera in 2014 as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata. A strong advocate for getting younger audiences into classical arts, Ambur is a believer in all forms of collaborative art and has performed with Broken Social Scene, The Arkells, Austra and The Sam Roberts Band. Ambur Braid Ambur Braid (born Amber Dionne Braid; March 19, 1983) is a Canadian opera singer. She is a dramatic coloratura soprano. Braid was born in Terrace, British Columbia. She studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould School with Donna"
"Sergei Prokofiev, a symphonic fairy-tale for children, as well as Bastien und Bastienne, a comic opera composed by Mozart. In 1985, the theatre staged another one of Mozart's works: The Magic Flute. The opera was adapted for marionettes by Walter Oehmichens son-in-law, Hanns-Joachim Marschall. In the course of the adaption, Marschall slightly changed the opera, cutting out long arias. He also engaged actors with trained singing voices to speak and sing the parts of the characters. Thus, every puppet had a double cast: a manipulator and a speaker. The same strategy was used for the adaption of Mozart’s The Abduction"
"Franz Xaver Gerl Franz Xaver Gerl ( – ) was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"". Gerl was born on in Andorf (then Bavaria, since 1780 part of Austria). He sang as a chorister as a child in Salzburg; the ""New Grove"" asserts that he was probably the pupil of Leopold Mozart. He attended the University of Salzburg, studying logic and physics. His career as a bass began in 1785 with the theatrical company of Ludwig Schmidt. He evidently had an impressively"
"recorded the role of the Italian Tenor in ""Der Rosenkavalier"". It was the fashion during Wunderlich's career for German theatres to perform operas in the local rather than original language. Therefore, most of his recordings of the standard operatic repertoire are sung in German, including Verdi's ""La traviata"" and Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"". (He sang his recording of the Verdi ""Requiem"" in distinctly Germanic Latin.) Wunderlich achieved the highest distinction within the German repertory. Of special importance is a recording of Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", conducted by Karl Böhm, in which Wunderlich gave a critically acclaimed performance as Prince"
"was an actor and also an opera singer. Aarne Viisimaa Aarne Viisimaa (born as Arnold Peeter Visman; 25 November 1898, Sangaste – 2 October 1989, Stockholm) was an Estonian operatic tenor and opera director. He was notably the director of the Estonian National Opera from 1927–1944. As an opera singer, he performed such roles as Eisenstein in ""Die Fledermaus"", Lenski in ""Eugene Onegin"", Ottavio in ""Don Giovanni"", Pinkerton in ""Madama Butterfly"", Tamino in ""The Magic Flute"", and the title roles in ""Faust"" and ""Lohengrin"" among others. He is buried in the Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn, Estonia. Viisimaa was a member"
"Håkan Hagegård Nils Olov Håkan Hagegård (born 25 November 1945 in Karlstad, Sweden) is a Swedish operatic baritone. Hagegård studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has performed on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the London Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera (""Così fan tutte"" conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt), and the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He played the role of Papageno in Ingmar Bergman's acclaimed film version of Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" (""Trollflöjten"", 1975). He sang the baritone solos in choral"
"Pol Plançon Pol Henri Plançon (12 June 1851 – 11 August 1914) was a distinguished French operatic bass (""basse chantante""). He was one of the most acclaimed singers active during the 1880s, 1890s and early 20th century—a period often referred to as the ""Golden Age of Opera"". In addition to being among the earliest international opera stars to have made recordings, he was a versatile singer who performed roles ranging from Sarastro in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" of 1791 through to core bass parts composed in the 19th century by Meyerbeer, Gounod, Verdi and Wagner, among others. He was renowned"
"many European cities: Berlin, Brno, Budapest, Český Krumlov, Dresden, Florence, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kroměříž, Linz, Munich, Nová Říše, Paris, Prague and Vienna. His research has received international attention owing to the discovery of new attributions to Mozart in Emanuel Schikaneder's collaborative opera ""Der Stein der Weisen oder Die Zauberinsel"" (Vienna, 1790). His thoroughgoing study of the theatrical tradition in which Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" originated has led him to new interpretations of the libretto, notably skepticism to the widely held view that ""The Magic Flute"" is specifically a Masonic opera (see Libretto of The Magic Flute). In 1998 he was named"
"English-language film version of ""The Magic Flute"". The film has been released in Europe, but not in the U.S. Kaiser was also an anthem singer at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec and Madison Square Garden in New York. Joseph Kaiser Joseph Kaiser is a Canadian operatic tenor. In 2005, he won second prize in Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Opera Competition while competing as a baritone. The judges were keen to his talents and potential as a tenor, and proposed that he make the switch to tenor. He has performed as a soloist with the New York Metropolitan Opera, making"
"1821 in Vienna. Johann Joseph Nouseul Johann Joseph Nouseul (1742 – 9 December 1821) was an actor, singer, and theater manager of the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is remembered for having premiered the role of Monostatos in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"". Nothing is known of his youth or his early efforts in the field of acting. In 1770, he married Maria Rosalia Lefèvre, an actress who went on to a distinguished career. During the 1770s he acted with his wife in companies in Munich, Rastatt, and briefly ran his own company in Hanover. He came"
"Thomas Hampson Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings. Hampson's operatic repertoire spans a range of more than 80 roles, including the title roles in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", Rossini's ""Guillaume Tell"" and ""The Barber of Seville"", Ambroise Thomas' ""Hamlet"", and Tchaikovsky's ""Eugene Onegin"". The center of his Verdi repertoire remains Posa in ""Don Carlo"", Germont in ""La traviata"", the title roles in ""Macbeth"" and ""Simon Boccanegra"", and more recently also Amfortas in Wagner's ""Parsifal"" and"
"Onegin"", for which he won the John Christie Award. In 1978 he made his first appearance with English National Opera, as Tamino in ""The Magic Flute"". In the course of a long and varied career he performed in Handel's oratorios, sang the role of Evangelist in J. S. Bach's ""St John Passion"" and ""St Matthew Passion"", and sang solos in Haydn's ""The Seasons"" and ""The Creation"". Operas he recorded include Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Mikado,"" Mozart's ""Idomeneo"" and ""La clemenza di Tito"", and Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" as well as appearing in the latter's ""War Requiem"", amongst"
"the Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer, on the ""Goldküste"" shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, and in Rome, part of the year. The couple married in 2011 after 12 years together. Bartoli lived in Monaco in the early 2010s. Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli, (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and Classical music. She is known for having the versatility to sing soprano and mezzo roles. Bartoli is considered a coloratura"
"Vienna Volksoper opera house from at least 1912 through 1917. In addition to the ""Volksoper"", Sembach also performed at the , a well known cabaret that still operates in Vienna. Sembach died of uremia in 1919 at the age of 40, following a long illness. Erwin Sembach Erwin Schück (1879 – 1919), better known by his stage name Erwin Sembach, was an opera singer with the Vienna Volksoper during its earliest years of producing operas, immediately before and during World War I. His greatest roles there were Masetto in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", Papageno in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", and Krušina"
"Erik Saedén Carl Erik Sædén (born 3 September 1924 in Vänersborg, died 3 November 2009, was a Swedish bass-baritone whose career was principally centred on Stockholm, both on the operatic stage as well as the concert platform. He made a few recordings and appeared in the 1975 Bergman film of ""The magic flute"". Sædén studied at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm from 1943–52, his teachers there including Arne Sunnegårdh, Martin Öhman and Wilhelm Freund. He received degrees in higher cantor and organist degree from the Royal College of Music in 1946, and a degree in vocal teaching 1952. Having joined"
"Johann Michael Wächter Johann Michael Wächter (2 March 1794 – 26 May 1853) was an Austrian bass-baritone most famous for appearing in the operas of Richard Wagner. Born in Rappersdorf in Austria, Wächter sang in various church choirs in Vienna, making his stage début in 1819 at Graz as Don Giovanni in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". He also appeared at Bratislava, Vienna and Berlin. In 1827 he joined the Dresden Hofoper, where he remained for the rest of his career. Here his roles included Mozart's ""The Marriage of Figaro"", and he sang in three Wagner premières, playing Orsini in ""Rienzi"" in"
"such roles as Barak in ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"", Telramund in ""Lohengrin"", Wotan in ""Die Walküre"", Baron Ochs in ""Der Rosenkavalier"", Don Pizarro in ""Fidelio"", Don Alfonso in ""Così fan tutte"", the Music Master in ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" and Leporello in ""Don Giovanni"". He sang his last Barak on 18 November 1984. Berry's other signature roles were Papageno in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"", Figaro and Bluebeard. He was also a noted interpreter of lieder (accompanied often at recitals by the German pianist Sebastian Peschko). Berry appeared, too, in choral works. Performing in light-hearted operettas, particularly ""Die Fledermaus"", was one of"