The Magic Flute outside Vienna (21 September 1792) in Lemberg, then in Prague. It then made "triumphal progress through Germany's opera houses great and small", and with the early 19th century spread to essentially all the countries of Europe—and eventually, everywhere in the world—where opera is cultivated. As Branscombe documents, the earlier performances were often of highly altered, sometimes even mutilated, versions of the opera (see "Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith"). Productions of the past century have tended to be more faithful to Mozart's music, though faithful rendering of Mozart and Schikaneder's original (quite explicit) stage directions and dramatic vision continues to be rare; with
The Nose (opera) at that house, and in 2018 at the Sydney Opera House and in Berlin. Flute (doubling piccolo, alto flute), oboe (doubling cor anglais), B-flat clarinet (doubling piccolo clarinet, A clarinet, bass clarinet), bassoon (doubling contrabassoon), horn, trumpet (doubling cornet), trombone, triangle, tambourine, castanets, tom-tom, ratchet, cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, tam-tam, glockenspiel, tubular bells, xylophone, flexatone, small domras, alto domras, two balalaikas, two harps, piano, and strings. The cast requires 82 singing/speaking parts, usually sung by about 14 performers. Opera in 3 acts and 10 scenes, without intermission St Petersburg. Kovalev, a Collegiate Assessor is being shaved by Ivan Yakovlevich