D. Fenton:
Well, if you don't require understandable character motivations, or any kind of explanation of why the characters go through the events they experience, then I guess you can get by without knowing the Masonic symbolism.
I I find myself puzzled at the assertions by quite a few on this list that The Magic Flute is incoherent. I confess I have never found it so. To me the characters, motivations, and events are all perfectly straightforward and sensible (within the fairy-tale universe that the drama clearly posits), and in fact don't require knowledge of the Masonic background--though of course knowledge of this sort can only deepen one's appreciation of any work.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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