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Simon McBurney’s richly inventive Zauberflöte arrives at the Met
With a stellar cast and fine orchestral playing, Mozart’s enigmatic fairy tale takes on a darker, more grown-up tone in its first new Metropolitan Opera staging in 19 years.
Met’s family-friendly Magic Flute vanquishes the forces of darkness
New York City's Metropolitan Opera restages its shorter, family-friendly version of Mozart's The Magic Flute with great music and delightful visuals.
An uneven Turn of the Screw on a 19th-century Bronx estate
A disappointing decision to downplay the ghosts and uneven performances made for a difficult and distracting in situ staging of Britten's adaptation of the classic Henry James thriller.
Flute still mesmerizing at The Met
The musical experience was dominated by the imagery making spectators feel, at least at times, overwhelmed.
Laurent Pelly's cautionary fairy-tale
After an absence of nearly a quarter-century, Humperdinck's evergreen returns to Seattle Opera in a winningly staged, musically sensitive production that looks beneath the fairy-tale surface.
It’s in the wind: Eyre's Figaro returns to The Met
Mozart’s beauty asserted but never implied, Sir Richard Eyre’s Le nozze di Figaro brings grand complications in bright turns and quick wit.