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Patrick Carfizzi as Papageno Ava Pine as Pamina during dress rehearsal of The Dallas Opera's "The Magic Flute" at Winspear Opera House. Let’s admit it: We don’t immediately relate to a lot, maybe even ...

Bird Person: Believe it or not, there is a precedent for a character who is a bird-like male humanoid creature: Papageno, the comic relief bestie sidekick from, you guessed it, The Magic Flute.

Here's the scoop from Vienna: Mozart and librettist Emanuel Schikaneder have been seen not spinning in their graves, but dancing on them. The collaborators are gleeful after hearing about the Oberlin ...

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On Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s opera at the Met. In a review, productions often have pride of place—this goes double, or triple, for new ones. Singing and playing are afterthoughts. With ...

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The Isango Ensemble, one of the world’s most unusual, interesting and important theater and opera companies, doesn’t distinguish between African theater and European opera. Nor does the company from ...

Considering it is centuries old, Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” happily manages to pull off some surprises, thanks to Opera Orlando‘s clever and inventive staging of the comic adventure tale. The first ...

After an embarrassing run of disasters and mediocrities, English National Opera badly needs a hit. Its new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, imported from Amsterdam, is exuberantly conducted, ...