Berthold Tours John Stainer. The works he edited included "Iphigenia in Aulis", "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Orpheus" by Gluck; "L'Étoile du nord" by Meyerbeer; "Il seraglio" and "Zauberflöte" by Mozart; "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini; "Der Fliegender Holländer" and "Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Euryanthe" by Weber; Mendelssohn's "Elijah"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita" and "Redemption", numerous piano albums, and many others. He also arranged scores of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for piano and voice. He was also a composer and composed a cantata for female voices called "The Home of Titania" (1893); an anthem entitled "A Festival Ode" (1893) for organ and soprano, which was
Libretto of The Magic Flute in the libretto. The opening eight bars of orchestral introduction to the duet "Pa pa pa", at the moment when Papagena is revealed to Papageno as his future wife, includes the stage direction that Papageno and Papagena "both engage during the ritornello in comic play." The experiences and background of the composer, who liked to have considerable input into the libretto (see "The Abduction from the Seraglio" for testimony), are also relevant. Nedbal writes, "Moral maxims appear frequently in eighteenth-century German drama and contemporary German theorists of theater often discuss them in their treatises. The main function of maxims is