A) Die Zauberfloete (The Magic Flute) ü B) Don Giovanni (Don Juan) C) La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus) D) Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart completed two operas in the year of his death: first, La Clemenze di Tito, in honor of the newly-crowned emperor; and second, what is for some his greatest opera, Die Zauberfloete. The work is notable for its heavy use of exotically-flavored Masonic symbolism. Both Mozart and his librettist Emanuel Schickaneder were Masons. The idea of a Masonically-themed opera seemed less eccentric in the eighteenth century than it does now, nor was Die Zauberfloete the only one of its kind.
