Current Affairs Czech-based musicologist claims to have found missing libretto to Mozart's Zaide

20-01-2005 | Pavla Horáková

For many years Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic work Zaide was regarded as a fragment. More than an hour of music was preserved but that was only the arias. Originally they were linked by spoken text, none of which survived. The German musicologist and conductor Andreas Kroeper, who now lives in the Czech Republic, says he has found the missing text and has proved it belonged to Zaide.

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