Emanuel Schikaneder
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Emanuel Schikaneder was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Brans
Schikaneder playing the role of Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Engraving by Ignaz Alberti
Auditorium of Regensburg Theatre
Schikaneder circa 1784
Papageno Gate – the former main entrance of the Theater an der Wien (1801). Schikaneder as Papageno with his siblings in Das Labyrinth.
Vestas Feuer
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Vestas Feuer is a fragment of an opera composed in 1803 by Ludwig van Beethoven to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The plot involves a romantic intrigue in which the heroine temporarily becomes a V
Detail of an 1804–05 portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler
The Theater an der Wien as it appeared in 1815
Ancient Roman statue of a Vestal Virgin