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New light and the man of might: revisiting early interpretations of Die Zauberflöte

Cowgill’s chapter appears in a volume she co-edited with David Cooper and Clive Brown. It is a Festschrift that explores the tensions between opera as art and opera as ideology in European culture, organised around three main themes: nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and national opera; opera, class, and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness. Cowgill co-wrote the prologue (33% contribution), but was the lead editor and undertook most of the developmental and editorial work, including preparation of a bibliography of the dedicatee’s published scholarship and compositions.