Mozart - Magic Flute Overture

Taken from the Reader’s Digest Video ’Wildlife Symphony’. Scenes from the natural world set to classical music. A weak libretto usually means failure for an opera, because there are limits to what audience will tolerate. The most famous exception is The Magic Flute, the action of which takes place in Memphis, Egypt, in about 1314 BC. The plot has the atmosphere of Christmas Panto and was the fabrication of a Viennese actor-manager named Schikaneder. Never, said Tchaikovsky, was so senselessly stupid a subj