The Magic Flute (ballet) Theatres were titled in French, which was the official language of the Imperial Court as well as the language from which balletic terminology is derived. Ballet comique in one act The Magic Flute (ballet) La flûte magique (en. "The Magic Flute") (ru. «Волшебная флейта», "Volshebnaya Fleita") is a "ballet comique" in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo. Although it has the same title as Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute", the two works have no other connection. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School at the school's theatre on . The principal
Libretto of The Magic Flute to draw a generalized observation from the proceedings on stage in order to promote virtue or condemn vice." Cairns attributes a taste for "didactic sentiment" specifically to the Viennese popular theater. Concerning "The Magic Flute" specifically, Rosen writes that it "develops ... a conception of music as a vehicle for simple moral truths." The opera's didacticism is concentrated in passages of poetry, set in the ensemble scenes, in which the characters cease to converse with each other and join in singing an edifying lesson to the audience. One example is found in the first act, just after Monostatos and his