PAPAGENO

The bird-catcher, that’s me,

always cheerful, hip hooray!

As a bird-catcher I’m known

to young and old throughout the land.

I know how to set about luring

and how to be good at piping.

That’s why I can be merry and cheerful,

for all the birds are surely mine.

 

                                      

 

 

Scene no 53: Papageno, the bird-catcher (Wilhelm Schweizer - Diessen, hand-painted pewter figure) walks down a forest path (Hand-painted pewter trees, made in Austria and Bavaria), carrying on his back a birdcage containing various birds.

The lyrics: From Act One of The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.