Zaide
Sign in to saveZaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished German-language opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition required of the composer to join this company was that he should write a comic opera. At Salzburg in 1779 Mozart began work on a new opera (now known as Zaide although Mozart did not give it such a title). It contains spoken dialogue, which also classifies it as a Singspiel (literally, "singing play"). Only the arias and ensembles fro
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Zaide
- Opera.type
- Singspiel
- Opera.composer
- W. A. Mozart
- Opera.image
- Mozart Portrait Croce.jpg
- Opera.caption
- Detail of Wolfgang from the 1780–81 Portrait of the Mozart Family
- Opera.librettist
- Johann Andreas Schachtner
- Opera.language
- German
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- Zaide
- date of first performance
- 1866-01-27
- catalog code
- 336b
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- publication date
- 1800-00-00
- title
- Zaide
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Zaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished German-language opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition required of the composer to join this company was that he should write a comic opera. At Salzburg in 1779 Mozart began work on a new opera (now known as Zaide although Mozart did not give it such a title). It contains spoken dialogue, which also classifies it as a Singspiel (literally, "singing play"). Only the arias and ensembles from the first two acts were composed. Missing are an overture and third act.
It was popular at the time for operas to depict the rescue of enslaved Westerners from Muslim courts, since Muslim pirates were preying on Mediterranean shipping, particularly to obtain slaves for various purposes. This story portrays Zaide's effort to save her beloved, Gomatz.