Das Labyrinth

The Magic Flute's Second Part") is a "grand heroic-comic opera" in two acts[1] composed in 1798 by Peter von Winter to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

Alexandra Liedtke, the director of the Salzburg Festival production in 2012, interpreted the story and Schikaneder's libretto "as one [of] the great fairy tales of history ..., in which the emblematic and the playfulness are standing in the limelights".

The opera was then also performed at the Theater an der Wien and the Konzerthaus Berlin (1803), the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (1806), the Staatstheater Nürnberg (1807) and other venues.

In 1978, there was a production that was rearranged to be without spoken dialogue, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, directed by August Everding, and with stage design by Jürgen Rose in the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich.

Pamina's mother, the Queen of the Night, laments the marriage and disguises the three Ladies into Venus, Adonis, and their Page before telling them to distract the couple long enough for Tipheus to disrupt the wedding.

The Papagenos once again capture Monostatos, freeing Papagena in the process, while Tamino and Tipheus agree to a duel for Pamina's hand in marriage.

There is another sequel to the original Magic Flute, also named Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil, a libretto fragment by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, intended to be set to music by Paul Wranitzky.

von Winter
Schikaneder
Papageno Gate, the former main entrance of the Theater an der Wien (1801) – Schikaneder as Papageno