What is the connection between Mozarts Magic Flute and Freemasonry?
Here are the opening lines on an essay you can find at this website http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/…/…_magic_flute.html : WHEN READING ABOUT one of the most celebrated operas in the history of the genre, it is interesting to note that many of the reference sources available dealing with that work can only begin to fathom its complexities. The complexities themselves are often the reason such a work is so mystifying through the ages; and any explanation of the said work is often guarded by those who created the spectacle initially. In the case of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, the Masonic traditions observed by the composer and its librettist (Emanuel Schickaneder) have prompted some of the most philosophical discussions in the annals of opera. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a fellow free-mason, speaks to the masses outside the circle of free-masonry regarding The Mag
