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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first glance, it’s actually full of subversive symbolism. Joshua Borths explains how many elements of "The Magic Flute" were inspired by Mozart’s somewhat controversial involvement with Freemasonry.
Lesson by Joshua Borths, animation by TED-Ed.
' The Queen of Night actually wants to plunge the world in darkness "
Well with a name like that that should've been pretty obvious.
She called the Queen of the Night--the hippy presenter couldn't eve get that right--there is a 15 minute cartoon version produced for the BBC some years ago that calls her "Queen of Night." Perhaps that is the only form of the opera he's seen.
@Shealyne Anglin it's really not funny
Merritt Animation yahh
The queen of night wants to plunge the world into brightness :D
@@heneralantonioluna8725 you just didn't get it...
My only criticism is that there is NO mention of Papageno, the bird-catcher obsessed with women who is obviously the real star of this show.
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Agree!
yes!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!
Maybe because he is about the only character that is really easy to understand? Schikaneder's theatre, Schikaneder's libretto, Schikaneder gets to both write and play the best part...
Pa! Pa pa!
There's so much going on in the mind of a genius. Meanwhile I'm here trying to figure out what day of the week it is.
So true.. lmao
It's November, I think.
.-. im not smart enough to understand
You guys are lucky. I am still not sure in which century i live ;)
21st .3.
The Papageno and Papagena duet is probably one of my favourite moments in any opera. The happiness and pure joy Papageno shows when finally finding is love is unbeatable
Papageno is the best !!!!
Papageno and Papagena represent the „lower marriage” at the level of matter/body whilst Tamino and Tamina represent the „higher marriage” at the level of spirit/soul. Both - the „infrared” and the „ultraviolet” - are needed to achieve hieros gamos.
It’s my favorite period!
"Do you want to know the secrets of my magic flute?" sounds like a bad pickup line
Thomas G 😂😂
Thomas G "your cousin blew notes on your little magic flute"
Thomas G I actually accidentally laughed for real
That's some really fascinating innuendo, since it was the Queen of the Night who gave the flute to the protagonist 😏
Actually thats the kind of joke Mozart could have said.
This opera also has the most wicked soprano aria I know of. Look up "The Queen of the Night aria" and enjoy. It's about as high as the human voice can go without injury (and only for a select few).
Yes it is so awesome!!
@@thetelleroftales4808 I heard another version was that he wrote it for the singer who he knew could do it. I don't know which one is true. Would Mozart sabotage his own aria?
@@khatunamezvrishvili6211
Yes and no, he did write it for a singer who could do it. But then he later didn't go out of his way to stop his in-law from humiliating herself.
Oh yeah. It's amazing to hear a good sopranist singing it live in concert!
Mozart wrote a different aria just to mess with the singer: Come scoglio from Cosi fan tutte, which is much harder as it includes low notes most sopranos can't project. The Queen's arias were showpieces for his sister-in-law; he didn't hate her.
My mom was able to sing the Queen of the Night's aria. My mom may not have been the perfect parent, but she was a massive influence on the music I love. Miss you, mom.
😮😮😮 WOW your mother must have been very talented 😊
We found the background plot of Dan Brown's next novel
Tiago Rodrigues Guerra there's a book in spanish about Beethoven 's 10th symphony
Oh God no! After seeing Dan Brown's Inferno I don't ever want to read or see anything from that author again. If he were to use the Magic Flute as a plot element, he would have 9 trials [3X3]; where the 2nd 3 would represent 3 Chinese philosophies or egg rolls.
+Robert Melvin True, the only one I kind like is the second one.
The Lost Symbol is my ultimate fav. I wish they'd make it into a movie
I wish not. They'll ruin it, just like the "the davinci code"
This was my very first opera. I remember as if it was just yesterday. Mozart made my way into classical music, and I couldn't want any better.
Well and good, but how can any synopsis of this opera skip a mention of Papageno? Shame.
Although I've never widely been a fan of opera, I have always loved The Magic Flute, as I grew up with a children's version that told the story in English, through the eyes of a little girl. To this day, it remains some of my favorite music ever, and I loved learning all this symbolism!
As if this is true!! It is a THEORY!! Which means they can't PROVE it!
No dragon! A snake: "Der listigen Schlange".
OnlyMozart1 And it's not Pamino who plays the magic flute, right? It's Papagueno.
No dude, Papageno playes the pipes. Tamino DOES play the magic flute. There's Tamino and Pamina. No "Pamino" however...
Thank you! I should re-read the libretto. It's been like maybe 20 years or so since I read it from beginning to end.
Man I'm so glad someone pointed this out! This story is my childhood xD
Schlange has a dual meaning in German: it can be both dragon and snake!
I knew Mozart was a genius, but this is some crazy shit
Mozart was also spoiled, if you read about him you would know.
@@zeethanguo He helped poison Mozart. After that he went deaf.
Yeah he is crazy genius
I had the honor of playing violin in Mozart's The Magic Flute last month and my director did a good job explaining this to us. The story and the free masons are very important to know before playing.
Goldgary456 what did The explain exactly ?
why was it important to know the story before playing Mozart?
@@oliviastar3812 it helps with musicality and interpretation if you know the purpose of the piece or the story it’s trying to convey
Someone should make a much longer video on this fascinating theme.
Love the music credit at the end. This was my first opera, I saw it at Covent Garden when I was 12 and that's when I realised I'd found my art form and the love of my musical life!! I've seen many operas by many composers since, but when I see one by Mozart it's like coming home.
3:00 That makes a lot of sense.
Not only was she a symbol of the Enlightenment’s ideals of freedom, but Mozart had a personal grudge against Maria Theresa. When the 15 year old Mozart premiered his youthful opera “Ascanio in Alba” in Milan, one of Maria’s sons wrote to her, saying that Mozart should be his own court composer. This was practically why Mozart was in Italy; he was fishing for a court position. But Maria Theresa wrote back to her son, saying that he should not hire “useless people”.
in the 4th grade we went on a field trip to the Seattle opera house to watch the magic flute and I remember being mesmerized by the whole thing, it was pretty awesome
Great analysis of a masterpiece, more of this please.
A talk on The Magic Flute that doesnt make one single mention of Papageno aka the bird catcher... Yeah, I think youre missing out on a bit. And by a bit I mean a lot.
Particularly related to Masonry, there's so much more that could be explored in Papagenos character
i never knew it had a so deep meaning. i think that's the deal with most great artworks
The Magic Flute never ceases to uplift my spirits, it never gets boring. It definitely is one of the most amazing pieces of music to have ever been written.
Um... It would be nice if this video got some plot point straight...
1) "The dragon" is actually "die listige Schlange" which means "the cunning snake" - is this really that hard to get right??!
2) It's not Tamino & Pamina who undergo trails together, but Tamino and Papageno, the bird catcher. While it looks like Pamina is initiated together with Tamino later, I'm not sure whether this is the case, since a part of the plot point of the Opera is that it's not a woman's place to be wise, but rather to be guided by wise men
3) The queen of the night never talks about wanting to plunge the world into darkness, though she does use rather colourful language ("der Hölle Rache" = "hell's revenge") to describe just how pissed off she is about her husbands misogynist attitude, since rather than leaving the "siebenfacher Sonnenkreis" = "sevenfold sun-circle", a magical object of immense power, to her, he gave it to some wisdom cult to "rule over it in a manly way". I'm not saying she's a good person, after all she's plotting murder and forcing her daugther to be her tool, but I don't remember any point where she plots more than to possess the supreme power she thinks is rightfully hers.
--> All this is what I remember simply from speaking German and watching the opera live plus hearing it talked about in the German world, where for example the fact that the monster was no dragon but a snake (and apparently Mozart worked with "ein grimmiger Löwe" = "a grim lion") is considered to be of interest...
At 3:33 he talks about 3... ether interesting coincidence, or was purposely put there.
' The Queen of Night actually wants to plunge the world in darkness "
AAAH THAT GOOD OLD SUBVERSIVE SYMBOLISM
Excellent video and a good lesson in the structure of story. Thank you
I wasn't crazy about Mozart as a clarinetist growing up. These days, I'm totally dazzled by his sound and Zauberflote has turned into my fave opera. Der holle rache, o zittre nicht and ach ich fuhls are 3 of my all-time fave arias.
I love these TED lessons about classical music! Really elucidating in creating a better understanding of classical music. I would be really interested to see a video about my favorite composer: J.S. Bach!
Ahhh, I love the "Zauberflöte"! It's one of my favourite operas by Mozart. As a classical flutist myself, I love playing the pieces (arias etc). They give you a very strong feeling. Especially the Queen of the Night, that's just- WOW!
I need to watch this opera
It's on youtube
Here you go, even though I'm 3 years late
th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
모차르트의 "마술 피리"의 이야기와 그 이야기의 의미, 그때의 시대상황을 연결시켜보는등 모차르트의 "마술 피리"에 대해 알아보는 시간이 되었습니다. 좋은 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.
Preciosa y valiosa explicación!! Gracias por compartir!! Bellísimo de mis óperas favoritas!
I need an hour long in depth documentary analyzing the story and symbolism in this opera. Five and a half minutes ain't gonna cut it.
Ah Mozart😌🙌🏼my favorite composer
Emma Sol, my favorite is Chopin.
1st mozart and 2nd chopin
great preference
Nothing on Papageno? :(
"Love and wisdom aren't really my thing."
Kudos to anyone who gets the phrase
I would love to see a series on different operas.
Hehe, I love how english speakers pronounce german words :P
du hast mich?
+NKD hasst?
Paolo Di Bello sorry no idea ((:
NKD Haha, where are you from ^^' ?
Elfee I'm from Asia.
I’m here after watching the Royal Opera House “The Magic Flute”
3 = 3 sides = 3 corners = triangle.
Illuminati confirmed.
Or Half-Life 3 confirmed.
David S. Well, one is an ongoing, while one has been completely gone because of the lord
"3+3+3=666" I'm pretty sure math does not work like that
Yadont Say
huh? Im not sure where you went to school but algebra IS math.
also are you sure that its algebra? because my math teacher would definitely disagree with you. Where is the variable? You must be trolling man...
Yadont Say
you Dont say
I did google facts what you're spouting surely aint it
This is a great and fascinating summary of this music !
Well-worn stuff. The actual relationship of Magic Flute to Freemasonry has to do with Freemasonry's roots in alchemy, rather than the specific politics of the 18th-century lodges. Tamino does not "balance" anything but instead must choose between the benevolent feminine (Pamina) and the dark feminine (Queen of the Night), the benevolent masculine (Zarastro) and the dark masculine (Monostatos), the world of rules (the Three Ladies) and the world of choice (the Three Spirits).
Sounds very Jungian, Kenneth.
This is probably the first opera I have known and learned about. This is not only a wonderful opera with coloraturas and whooping high and low notes. One Mozart's best indeed.
Sounds like it could be the plot of an Adventure Time episode
that video title sounds like a video about Mozart's sexual prowesse
Ricky Basilone 😂😂
Well, Mozart did write a song about licking his ass.
@@MrDUneven What does that have to do with anything?
@@DanielFahimi it has everything to further prove why mozart is a genius
Respect mah naive-a-tay!!
First Last lmao, thank you... glad I'm not the only one who noticed that odd pronunciation.
Giuseppe LoGiurato lolll me, too.. i was like, “huh, that kind of word exists??.?” when the narrator mentioned it
Giuseppe LoGiurato
Technically it’s a lot closer to the pronunciation it had before English picked it up
Along with many, many others. The word was French, but because of all the culture shared between England and France (the English royalty even spoke French primarily, and English was the common language in England for around 300 years iirc), English adopted around 10,000 words directly from French. Modern day I think roughly 7,500 of ‘em are still in popular use. There’s also the French phrases we’ve adopted (crème de la crème, déja vu, je ne sais quoi, oh là là, c’est la vie, etc.). Obviously some dialects use it more, like in England, where they also tend to stay truer to the French pronunciation
A story about a boy taking a magic flute from the queen of the night, sounds like a metaphor for something lol
Cody Reynolds
Not 100% but I think it is.
Cody Reynolds ha ha ha
like what?
Cody Reynolds
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A more extensive and excellent Magic Flute discussion is done by The Great Courses; The Operas of Mozart by Robert Greenberg.
Greenberg is fantastic- he tells the story of the opera, plays sections of it, and explains all about the Masonic connections.
Highly recommend!
Do more classic music videos! They are awsome...
I saw the 2019 staging in Austria's Sankt Magareten Steinbruch. It was one of the best productions I ever saw🥰
4:08 Reminds me of Hegel (thesis, antithesis, synthesis)
Just enjoy the music
This reminds me of something I read years ago
"He is someone who knows everything about good books except how to enjoy them"
reminds me of Hegel's dialectics. The excursion of consciousness towards reason in a way of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
I remember reading an amazing book about this when I was an undergraduate music major. I had begun to love the opera a couple years earlier, and after learning about the Masonic elements in the work, I finally began to understand that what was outwardly silly, was a dramatic statement about Enlightenment.
I remember that I read in an opera-guide that the queen of the night was initially planned as "the good one" and that only later this was changed... which makes sence when I think about it. Day and Night need each other. What would the spirit of the day be without the refreshing rest of the night? I think if the magic flute really contains ideas of the enlightenment then Mozart would have wanted to find a balance between the night (the queen) and the day (Sarastro).
Mozart used a technique that reminds me of yin-yang (stable and active). One line of continuous notes and another with on/off pulses. The masons have the 2 pillars Yachin and Boaz that also remind me of the stable and active principle, as they mean something like strength/force and stability. I don't know if the masons even heard of Lao Tzu...... it's a universal principle.
This is brilliant! I'm duly and truly impressed!
Great video! Keep them coming
I'm getting frightened now. Ted always create a new video for all my questions. I'm even listening to Mozart now.
'Music by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'
nice one TED-Ed, love it :)
This channel has THREE million subcribers
MASON CONFIRMED
Jonas Anselmo this comment is THREE months old Mason confirmed!! 😂
braindeadfred this reply is THREE weeks old. MASON CONFIRMED 😔😂😂😂
This comment is 3 years old
This video and comment are THREE years old, DOUBLE MASON CONFIRMED
i was kinda into classical music and jazz until now , i m also teaching myself to play the piano (i m 18) but i was never interested in opera music..probably because i didn t understand it , but now that you explained me a little more in depth this masterpiece ... i really want to know more about opera . Thanks TED :)
TextuaryStar great , thanks , do they also have hidden meanings like this one in them ?
TextuaryStar no problem , thanks anyways :)
I love this song from Mozart!!! One of my favorites next to his "a little night music"!! I love Mozart and all those other good classical composers like bach, Beethoven and pachelbel! 😄😄😄
he didn't write songs tho, i think you mean piece of music
@@davlor86 Or maybe Katie means opera.
This sounds like a Robert Langdon lecture😂😂
Liam McManus because of its inclusion of Freemasonry?
MOAR
I WANT MOAR
WE WANT MOAR ENLIGHTENMENT
oooh you should talk about the famous "Queen of the night Aria" (Der Holle Rache) making a relation between high notes and how vocal cords work!
Want to hear the best rendition!??
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Plus it has one of the best solos I've even seen (here on TH-cam) from the queen talking with the daughter. Just marvelous.
This barely scratched the surface of the symbolism and Masonic imagery in the opera.
Yes. Tamino's three trials- fire, water, and air before he could be initiated into the (masonic) mysteries and receive Sarastro's blessing for his union with Pamina.
Learning something new everyday
Do you have any idea who the specific audio of the trill in this video comes from? It hits a really weirdly specific spot in my brain and I can’t find it because the other versions aren’t quite right.
I knew it ...This song was so much more. None other can compare to Mozart’s talent in the entire human civilization 🙌✨🤔
i looove this opera
im blue daba dee daba die
why lol
That flute looks like a baguette
I love it
Imagine how amazing if we could see the premier of this opera in 1791 conducted by Mozart himself
Me: o p e r a a a a a a
TH-cam: magic flute for u
I love TED-Ed.
Wish there was enough funding for you guys to make multiple videos a day on different subjects. My favorites are the physics and space episodes.
...This is the first look into what this music is about...One of my favorite songs was about Mozart....So, I am finally finding out about him.....
Hi everyone, thx for supporting😂
Very fascinating! I've never heard of it. Can't wait to watch this new movie based on it
I just realized that Super Mario 3, the original NES game, is based on this opera. Mario uses magic flutes to go through worlds on his way to the land of darkness (World 8) to rescue his princess held captive by a dragon (Bowser). That's also where the magic flutes, hidden in very secret places, ultimately take you--the land of darkness. This is the 3rd installment of the video game series and there are three magic flutes that Mario can find. The first magic flute is found in stage 3 of World 1, and World 3 (land of tropical seas) and World 6 (land of ice) are the biggest worlds in the game, representing climatic opposites. Fascinating. I bet there are more symbols I can uncover if I go back and search the game. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario 3, is one crafty dude...
is it just me
or does my pfp look like the "Magic Flute" in the amination?
also it looks more like a recorder and especially with the way tomino played it
Ingmar Bergman really captures the humor in this opera. Please, watch "Trollflojten" someone has posted it on youtube with english subs.
Those harmonies actually are pretty common in many pieces...
Gayane Aslanyan ikr . this video is bullshit.
Without being overly harsh, I would have to agree. Mozart didn't write the story, he composed the music. Period.
He actually worked in part on the story/libretto with the librettist Schikaneder, who was also a freemason. The chords themselves aren't the point, but rather how they're highlighted; making a clear statement of salient significance -- especially as it relates to masonic symbology.
@@Silverlin212 Mozart was only a nominal free mason. Schikckaneder deceived Mozart and did not pay him a "thaler" for his efforts according to Mozart´s brother in law, Josef Lange in his Biography.
Or maybe it's just a story Mozart liked.
LolGuy nah. we know he was a mason. grab any book about Mozart and you will find presented plenty of evidence
LolGuy hahahahahahhhahaha omg
Makes more sense than the 'video'.
Dude it's everywhere wirtten. Mozart was a Mason and was hired to make this opera
Mozart didn't write the story, he just wrote the music
all nice and good, but i believe the fact that the libretto is acually written by Emanuel Schikaneder and not Mozart himself is quite important, since he had the idea first and included the symbols to the play
LOVED THIS VIDEO!!
The highest you can go in your "Blue Lodge" is the "Third Degree". The Thirty Second Degree is conferred in the Scottish Rite. "So Mode It Be."
PLEASE DO STRAVINSKY'S "Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka". PLEEEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEE!!!
Please make a lesson about the Romanov family!!!! Plizzz
Magic Flute is a timeless Egyptian fantasy novel originally written by Shakespeare and has been the source of the most classical fantasy stories like Thor, Inhumans, Dr Strange, Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Mozart somehow compressed thid lengthy novel to a childhood fairytale, but those such creators of the listed stories above rrad the original one. Pamina was extremely clever young monarch, and Tamino is like Anthony Marcus. An extremely incrante masterpiece of fantasy warfare, star crossed love, complicities of human nature and family ties.
BTW these are their original names : Pammenes, Tamios, Ashtoreth , Monostatos and Zarastors I dont know the rest`s original names, but it is Ancient Mediterranean
Chum Man ki. Shakespeare was a playwright and not a novelist. Also I am unaware of any of Shakespeare's plays as weird as the Magic Flute.
My father was a Freemason and I've got his books. Lots of this vid make since since FM is woven into all parts of our history.
This video has been suggested to me "3" years after it was uploaded
3 ladies, 3 trials, 3 doors?
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
I cannot accept such a complex interwoven play was written. I think historians have severely embellished upon all the minor details.
I have a question that you might wanna put in a video (not really)
Why does flour prevent dough form sticking
merci beaucoup
"Simple humble melodies..."
Me: wait, it's literally impossible for me to hum 'Die Hölle Rache... "
The way he says Wolfgang is adorable.