It was a rare, if not unprecedented, moment Friday at the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of a spectacular staging of Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" (The Magic Flute). At evening's end, director-designer ...

Winter Opera rounds out its 18th season with a splendid production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). This is perhaps the most popular opera in the world, and it is an all-round challenge ...

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) is often staged as a fun fairy tale, playing to its magical and ritual elements; the Metropolitan Opera’s colorful Julie Taymor production is a prime ...

The opera "Die Zauberflote," otherwise known as "The Magic Flute," by Mozart, will turn into a family-friendly opera for the first time. The Seoul Arts Center (SAC) has a new production team for this ...

Brenton Ryan as Monostatos, Olivia Vote as the Second Lady, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Alexandria Shiner (behind) as the First Lady, and Tamara Mumford as the Third Lady. Karen Almond / ...

In the mid-’70s I was living in Northampton, Mass., biding my time for the summer before becoming an impoverished graduate student in music. Every morning I got up at 5 a.m. to go sweep floors and ...

Darkness falls, the Overture’s threefold chord unfurls, releasing the scampering string lines of the Allegro, and suddenly the gloomy aisles and balconies of the Royal Opera are punctured with lights ...

THIS is the sixth revival of David McVicar’s 2003 production of Mozart’s Magic Flute and it just seems to get better and better. McVicar is renowned for his gloriously dark productions and his style ...