In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s legendary two-act opera The Magic Flute was a pro-Enlightenment success, which brought its creator a measure of happiness before he passed away mere months ...

Having been “bored s - - tless” the first time he saw “The Magic Flute,” Barrie Kosky hoped never to suffer through it again. Granted, he was only 11 at the time but, thanks to his grandmother, he’d ...

Eight years ago, the Metropolitan Opera had a hit with director Julie Taymor’s now famous production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” thrusting opera into the age of Cirque du Soleil. Now San Francisco ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

Mozart gave the Queen of the Night one of the most treacherous arias in all of opera: "Der Hoelle Rache" — "Hell's Revenge." It's heard in Act Two, as the Queen (soprano Anna-Kristiina Kaapola) is ...

Ulrich Lenz, dramaturge of Mostly Mozart's bold new adaptation of 'The Magic Flute,' explains why they gave the opera a silent film-style update. Rodion Pogossov as Papageno and Maureen McKay as ...

Mozart's The Magic Flute, written in the last year of his life, was a forerunner of German Romantic opera. Critic Ted Libbey recommends a specific... Mozart's Forward-Looking 'Magic Flute' Mozart's ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight on WQXR. It's a radio special that looks at the representations of blackness in Mozart's Opera, the Magic Flute. Overture Terrance ...

A young tenor enters a world enlivened by computer graphics at a school devoted to the composer’s works in this Roland Emmerich-inspired film. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Legendary British stage director Peter Brook has made a career of deconstructing and reinvestigating the classics. He rearranged the soliloquies in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and cut the chorus from ...