Sarastro (musical drama)

Sarastro is the title of a musical drama by Karl Goepfart , premiered in 1891 , which ties in with the plot of Mozart / Schikaneder's Magic Flute . The libretto is by Gottfried Stommel .

The libretto

Stommel incorporated large parts of the fragment " The Magic Flute, Second Part " by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into his libretto . In broad terms, the plot initially follows the course outlined by Goethe, but leaves it towards the end of the second act and finally comes to an unexpected end.

The plot

First act : Pamina and Tamino are parents of one son. The gathering of priests awaits the return of a pilgrim who has "traveled the world" . A new pilgrim is determined by lot. The lot falls on Sarastro, who, despite the objections of the priesthood, goes on the pilgrimage. Monostatos reports to the Queen of the Night that the child Taminos and Paminas was locked by him in a golden coffin that cannot be opened and will die. On Sarastro's advice, the coffin is kept in motion to keep the child alive. Papageno and Papagena receive golden eggs as a present from Sarastro, from which their children hatch, and Aurora, a 15-year-old daughter. This is shown in a ballet (titled "Eiertanz" sic! ).

Second act : Pamina wants to consecrate the golden coffin in a mausoleum to the sun gods. On his pilgrimage, Sarastro meets the Queen of the Night unrecognized. At first he can win her over to the teachings of the "initiated" in a lengthy conversation, but she insists that Sarastro must die. Sarastro negotiates the life of the trapped child for her and receives a poison herb from the Queen of the Night to poison herself.

Third act : Aurora frees the trapped child from the golden coffin with the help of the carillon Papagenos. This one, grown up in a golden coffin, bears the name Phoebus and wants to connect with Aurora in asexual, spiritualized love. In a ballet (titled: “Festival of the Volmond”), comical scenes between drunken forest dwellers and mythical creatures follow. The marriage of Phoebus and Aurora is being celebrated in Tamino's palace when the funeral procession for Sarastro moves in. The Queen of the Night appears and triumphs at first, but then realizes her delusion and asks for forgiveness. She dies on the catafalk , but rises to heaven with Sarastro as the purified.

literature

Sarastro. Libretto, Karlsruhe, printed by G. Braun'schen Hofbuchdruckerei, 1891