Pa-pa-pa It’s 223 years today since the first performance of The Magic Flute: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute#mediaviewer/File:Papageno.jpg You might not have three hours, but you must have three minutes: https://youtube/watch?v=oeP0NOPAIys And another two minutes: THE PROOF ‘When rites and melodies begin To alter modes and times, And timid bar-flies boast aloud Of uncommitted crimes, And leading families are proud To dine with their black sheep, What promises, what discipline, If any, will Love keep?’ So roared Fire on their right: But Tamino and Pamina Walked past its rage, Sighing O, sighing O, In timeless fermatas of awe and delight (Innocent? Yes. Ignorant? No.) Down the grim passage. ‘When stinking Chaos lifts the latch, And Grotte backward spins, And Helen’s nose becomes a beak And cats and dogs grow chins, And daisies claw and pebbles shriek, And Form and Colour part, What swarming hatreds then will hatch Out of Love’s riven heart.’ So hissed Water on their left: But Pamina and Tamino Opposed its spite, With his worship, with her sweetness - O look now! See how they emerge from the cleft (Frightened? No. Happy? Yes.) Out into sunlight.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:16:05 +0000
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