{"id":18532,"date":"2024-03-07T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/?p=18532"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:07:56","slug":"die-zauberfloete-ohne-diskriminierende-sprache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/en\/die-zauberfloete-ohne-diskriminierende-sprache\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eDie Zauberfl\u00f6te\u201c without discriminating language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Franz L\u00e9har’s “Land of Smiles” must be viewed differently in 2024 than in the year of its premiere in 1929. The librettists Ludwig Herzer, Fritz L\u00f6hner-Beda and Victor L\u00e9on describe China in a largely uniform, stereotypical and racist way. The women in the play are also portrayed with little differentiation. In order to bring a contemporary perspective to the old material, the NKO has commissioned two young artists, Elisabeth Pape and Abig\u00e9l Varga, to completely rewrite the plot and music of LISAS LAND DES L\u00c4CHELNS<\/a>, making significant changes to the original and reducing or adding musical parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Critical Classics<\/a> initiative is taking a different approach here: it recently published a text edition of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” that has been brought up to modern standards by diversity and opera experts. Instead of belittling women, quote “a woman does little, chats a lot”, <\/em>or discriminating against people on the basis of their skin colour, quote “and I should avoid love because a black man is ugly”,<\/em>“Critical Classics” aims to raise general awareness of discriminatory language in opera libretti with a carefully revised libretto and use practical examples to stimulate a discussion on how to deal with problematic content. The music, on the other hand, remains 99.9% untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Neuk\u00f6llner Oper supports the project and offers the libretto and the edited piano score for download here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Zauberfl\u00f6te (Critical Classics)<\/strong>
Klavierauszug 1. Akt<\/a><\/strong>
Klavierauszug 2. Akt<\/a><\/strong>
Einf\u00fchrung<\/a><\/strong>
Libretto<\/strong><\/a>
Libretto (2-spaltig)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Die Initiative Critical Classics hat eine neue, diskriminierungssensible Textedition von Mozarts Klassiker ver\u00f6ffentlicht, die hier zum Download verf\u00fcgbar ist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/?p=18383","_post_author":"\u00c4nne-Marthe K\u00fchn","_pinkie_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21835,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions\/21835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neukoellneroper.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}