Life of Mozart

:^—DRAMATIS PERSONS. 303young man, the first performance took place on September30. Mozart conducted at the piano, and Siissmayr turnedover for him. The playbill ran as followsThis day, Friday, September 30, 1791, the Company of the ImperialTheatre auf der Wieden have the honour of performing for the first timeSarastroTaminoOratorDie Zauberflöte.Grand Opera in Two Acts, by Emanuel Schikaneder.Dramatis Person^e.Herr Gerl.Herr Schack.Herr Wmter (Jos. Schuster).First \ (-Herr Schikaneder, senior.Second [Priests \ Herr Kistler (Weiss).Third J iHerr Moll.Queen of NightMadame Hofer.Pamina, her daughter ...Mdlle. Gottlieb.First \ /Mdlle. Klopfer.Second VLadiesjMdlle. Hofmann (Madame Haselböck).Third ) iMadame Schack (Madame Gerl).PapagenoAn Old WomanHerr Schikaneder, junior.Madame Gerl.Monostatos, a Moor ... Herr Nouseul.First \ /-Herr Gieseke (Helmböck).Second VGenii j Herr Frasel (Strassier).Third J I Herr Starke (Trittenwein).The music is by Herr Wolfgang Amade Mozart, Capellmeister andImperial Chamber Composer. Esteem for an appreciative public andfriendship for the author of the work have induced Herr Mozart toconsent on this occasion to conduct the orchestra in person.Books of the opera, with two copper-plate engravings, representingHerr Schikaneder in his actual costume as Papageno, maybe had at thebox-office, price thirty kreutzers.The scenery and stage accessories have been intrusted to Herr Gayland Herr Nessthaler, who flatter themselves that they have performedtheir task with all due regard to the artistic requirements of the piece.»2 Al. Fuchs, Wien. Mus. Ztg., 1842, p. 57. A. M. Z., XLIV., p. 366.^ The three Genii were played by Nanette Schikaneder, afterwards Madame£ikof (Sudd. Mus. Ztg., 1866, p. igi), Matth. Tuscher and Handlgruber, butFrz. Maurer appeared instead of the second, the same who sang Sarastro fouryears afterwards. The names in brackets rest on a communication fromTreitschke (Orph., p. 246) ; apparently these parts were sometimes changed.