On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
. . . Is it important to know that _The Magic Flute_ is full of Masonic symbolism? . . .
Perhaps, because otherwise, it's fairly incoherent. I would say that proves that it's not a very good opera.
The fact that Flute has remained popular for centuries in spite of the fact that 90+% of listeners have no clue about the Masonic symbolism suggests to me that there is something very good about the opera, incoherent or not.
mdl
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