Worksheet for Mozarts Magic Fantasy

1. Mozart was born in the year ________ and

died in _________ at the age of __________
2. What city and country did Mozart live in?
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3. What is the title of the work that Mozarts
Magic Fantasy is based on? ______________
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4. What kind of work is it? What is it based on?
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5. Name three staging devices Mozart used.
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6. Who is Sarah? What does she do? ________
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7. Who is the first character she meets and
what does she do with that character?
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8. Who do they meet next and what does that
character do for whom? _________________
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9. Who is the mother in The Magic Flute? Who
is her child? Whose mother is she in
Mozarts Magic Fantasy? _________________
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10. How does the Queen of the Night sing?
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11. Describe the Queen of the Night: Is she
good or bad? What does she look like?
What does she say? ____________________
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12. What two things is Papageno looking for?
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13. Where do we first hear the ravens? ________

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14. Which two characters are waiting there?
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15. Who charms whom? How? ______________
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16. Who are the other main three characters? __
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17. What do the soldiers make them do? How?
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18. Name two groups that Sarah and Tamino
encounter in the castle. _________________
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19. Who else do they meet? What kind of voice
does this person have? __________________
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20. Who do Sarah and Tamino watch the battle
with? ________________________________
21. Who sings about a broken heart. Why?
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22. Where are Papageno and Dragon together?
What are they complaining about? _______
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23. Which two characters finally meet? What
trials do they pass through? Who is defeated?
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24. Who is still looking for a girlfriend? What is
her name? ____________________________
25. Who sings a love song to whom at the end?
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26. Who invites whom to step into the music
and return home? ______________________

ANSWERS: Cut this portion off before photocopying. (1) 1756, 1791, 35; (2) Vienna, Austria; (3) The Magic Flute;
(4) magic opera, fairy tale; (5) fire, water, flying machines; (6) a modern girl who plays the flute and comes looking
for her mother; (7) the stage technician, Dragon, whom she shrinks; (8) Papageno, collects birds for the Queen of
Night; (9) Queen of the Night, Pamina, Sarah; (10) high and loud; (11) bad, covered in stars, I am the moon,
I am the stars, I am the night... cold and angry because my daughter has been stolen from me; (12) birds and a
girlfriend; (13) outside the Gates of Terror; (14) Sarah and Tamino; (15) Tamino, animals, with his flute;
(16) Papageno, Dragon, Pamina; (17) dance away, with his magic bells; (18) soldiers, children; (19) Sarastro, low;
(20) Queen of the Night; (21) Pamina, she thinks she will never find Tamino; (22) in the labyrinth; Papageno: no
ducky feathers and tail in his face; Dragon; scales will rust, cant swim, bats in his hair; (23) Pamina and Tamino,
fire and water, Queen of the Night; (24) Papageno, Papagena; (25) Sarah, Dragon; (26) Sarastro, Sarah.