*sigh* I remember trying desperately to force my voice down a register to sing Zorastro's spine-tingling 'Isis et Osiris' aria. Sadly these days I'm hard pushed to hold some of Papageno's simpler lines.
Pa, pa pa, papapapa etc.
It's still a magical opera in so many ways - for me music has rarely been as enjoyable and exuberant as when it was in the hands of Mozart and da Ponte. I must have seen the Magic Flute in seven or eight different productions and heard a score of recordings, but never tire of it.