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 ...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians David Buck (flute), Erin Hannigan (oboe), David Cooper (horn), Ted Soluri (bassoon) and Gregory Raden (clarinet) perform a wind quintet arrangement of the Overture ...

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The style of the production is based on various types of classic animation, Merrie Melodies meets Gerald McBoing-Boing. Live performers interact with projections rather in the style of the film ...

“The Magic Flute” comes back to the Sarasota Opera often out of sheer popularity and this year it provides a special opportunity for Jesse Martins. The longtime music director of the Sarasota Youth ...

Those flirtatious ladies flouncing around the prone prince in the first musical number of The Magic Flute – no overture here – only had to sing “although it breaks my heart in two/I have to bid ...

There's not much magic left in Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute." Relocating the 1791 opera to WWI and adopting a hard-edged approach that worked for "Hamlet," Branagh has wrought a "Flute" for high ...