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Mozart meets Vaudeville in Seattle's silent movie Magic Flute

By Erica Miner, 22 February 2025

Eye-popping, hand-drawn animation melds with Mozart's fantastical world and the silent film era to create a colorful and energetic new-to-Seattle production.

***11

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Seattle

23 Feb 2025

Mozart meets Vaudeville in Seattle's silent movie Magic Flute

By Erica Miner

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Edinburgh

Malin Byström stars in a radiant Capriccio to close the Edinburgh International Festival

By David Smythe, 25 August 2024

Capriccio proves a fitting end to the Philharmonia’s EIF residency, with Alexander Soddy conducting a fine cast headed by Swedish soprano Malin Byström.

****1

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Edinburgh

26 Aug 2024

Malin Byström stars in a radiant Capriccio to close the EIF

By David Smythe

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Annandale-on-Hudson

Saint-Saëns rarity Henry VIII takes the crown at Bard SummerScape

By Cameron Kelsall, 21 July 2023

Conductor Leon Botstein and director Jean-Roumain Vesperini treat this Tudor soap opera with appropriate grandeur, while a top-notch cast deliver the vocal goods.

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Annandale-on-Hudson

22 Jul 2023

Saint-Saëns rarity Henry VIII takes the crown at Bard SummerScape

By Cameron Kelsall

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New York City

Kurzak and Fabiano star in a fresh, lyrical Tosca at the Met

By Kevin W Ng, 04 October 2022

Aleksandra Kurzak's lyrical Tosca brings out the woman behind the caricature in this revival of Sir David McVicar's lavish production.

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New York City

05 Oct 2022

Kurzak and Fabiano star in a fresh, lyrical Tosca at the Met

By Kevin W Ng

New York City

Met’s family-friendly Magic Flute vanquishes the forces of darkness

By Linda Holt, 15 December 2019

New York City's Metropolitan Opera restages its shorter, family-friendly version of Mozart's The Magic Flute with great music and delightful visuals.

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New York City

16 Dec 2019

Met’s family-friendly Magic Flute vanquishes the forces of darkness

By Linda Holt

London

Magical Flute: McVicar's Zauberflöte returns to Covent Garden

By Matthew Rye, 04 November 2019

David McVicar’s imaginative staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute comes back for its eighth run at the Royal Opera with an excellent new cast.

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London

05 Nov 2019

Magical Flute: McVicar's Zauberflöte returns to Covent Garden

By Matthew Rye

Seattle

Trying to rethink Madama Butterfly at Seattle Opera

By Thomas May, 05 August 2017

Seattle Opera's visually poetic and refined Madama Butterfly peeks back at Puccini's own first version of the opera, which was arguably more openly critical of the devastation wrought by imperialism.

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Seattle

06 Aug 2017

Trying to rethink Madama Butterfly at Seattle Opera

By Thomas May

Seattle

Seattle Opera's Magic Flute as enchanting as ever

By Erica Miner, 06 May 2017

“Love, love, love… that is the soul of genius,” said Mozart. In no other work does he demonstrate this affirmation more compellingly than in his forever-beloved opera, Die Zauberflöte.

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Seattle

08 May 2017

Seattle Opera's Magic Flute as enchanting as ever

By Erica Miner

Chicago

The Magic Flute: American nostalgia invoked in Chicago

By Dan Wang, 10 December 2016

Setting the opera in the backyard of a suburban house feels refreshingly honest: the ridiculous and simplistic tale of the evil witch, the prince and the maiden is rightfully returned to the arena of children's games, and adults look on indulgently, with a wink.

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Chicago

14 Dec 2016

The Magic Flute: American nostalgia invoked in Chicago

By Dan Wang

Houston

Fear in future past: Siegfried at Houston Grand Opera

By Sydney Boyd, 16 April 2016

The production is a disconcerting combination of cold metallic future and Neanderthal aesthetics – a startling pairing of humanity’s beginning and its end.

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Houston

17 Apr 2016

Fear in future past: Siegfried at Houston Grand Opera

By Sydney Boyd