Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote on Die Zauberfloete:

>The music is sublime; the libretto, crazy.

That, exactly that, is the problem with Mozart operas for me: the
librettos are poor (though now Zauberfloete is manifold).  If Mozart had
not winded up the texts with his firestorm of music I wouldn't dabble with
those operas.

Mats Norrman
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