Preliminary circumvolutions -- What everyone knows -- Traditions and misunderstandings -- The libretto, how many authors -- Legend of the revised libretto -- Sources of the libretto -- History of the libretto and its growth -- Mozart and Singspiel -- Freemasonry in Vienna in the Eighteenth Century -- Mozart and Freemasonry -- Freemasonry and feminism in Die Zauberflöte -- In pursuit of meaing -- Exegesis of the five chords -- The cosmogony of the libretto -- The principle characters: two heavenly bodies, four elements -- The secondary characters -- Other symbols -- The initiatory trials -- From libretto to score -- Analysis of the opera -- Overall view -- The overtures -- The first act -- The second act -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 / Letter from Seyfried to Treitschke -- Appendix 2 / Annonymous article in the Monatsschrift für theater and Musik, Vienna, 1857 -- Commentaries on plates with sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.