Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön Williams suggest that the opening notes of "Dies Bildnis" spill over into other numbers of "The Magic Flute": "The opening phrase of 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön' turns up at a half-dozen unexpected places in the second finale. These and similar melodic remembrances are not to be regarded as leitmotifs in the Wagnerian sense but as partly unconscious echoes of musical ideas that were in Mozart's mind throughout the composition of the opera." One such echo has been repeatedly noted: the phrase to which Pamina sings the words "" ("My Tamino! Oh what happiness!") when she and Tamino are reunited
Mozart and Salieri (opera) August 2016 at the 10th Grimeborn Festival at Arcola Theatre in London, the stage director was Pamela Schermann and musical director was Andrew Charity. "Time": End of the 18th century "Place": Vienna, Austria Salieri enjoys high social position as a composer, and has dedicated himself to the service of his art. Secretly, however, he is jealous of Mozart's works because he recognizes their superior quality, especially given what he sees as the "idle" character of Mozart. Salieri invites Mozart to dinner and plans to poison him. Mozart and Salieri are dining at an inn. Mozart is troubled by his work