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Traditional rides such as a Ferris wheel and merry-go-round can be enjoyed here, as well as a puppet show known as Kasperl von der Au, regarded as the Bavarian equivalent of Punch and Judy.
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Kasperl is, indeed, directly responsible for "Die Zauberflöte."
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Following in a general way the lines of this story, but supplying the comic element by the creation of Papageno (who is Kasperl in a habiliment of feathers), Schikaneder had already got his hero into the castle of the wicked magician in quest of the daughter of the
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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"Oberon" had filled the popular mind with a great fondness for fantastic and Oriental subjects, and a rival manager had been successful with musical pieces in which the principal character was the popular Kasperl.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Papageno, for instance, is but a slightly metamorphosed Kasperl, a Jack
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Pudding (Hanswurst) twice removed; and Kasperl is as intimately bound up in the German nature as his cousin Punch in the English.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Märchen, such as the "Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schonen
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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