Der Schauspieldirektor
For Beecham, Mozart was "the central point of European music," and he treated the composer's scores with more deference than he gave most others. He edited the incomplete Requiem, made English translations of at least two of the great operas, and introduced Covent Garden audiences who had rarely if ever heard them to "Così fan tutte", "Der Schauspieldirektor" and "Die Entführung aus dem Serail"; he also regularly programmed "The Magic Flute", "Don Giovanni" and "The Marriage of Figaro". He considered the best of Mozart's piano concertos to be "the most beautiful compositions of their kind in the world", and he played them many times with Betty Humby-Beecham and others.