For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...
Mozart gave the Queen of the Night one of the most treacherous arias in all of opera: "Der Hoelle Rache" — "Hell's Revenge." It's heard in Act Two, as the Queen (soprano Anna-Kristiina Kaapola) is ...
Having been “bored s - - tless” the first time he saw “The Magic Flute,” Barrie Kosky hoped never to suffer through it again. Granted, he was only 11 at the time but, thanks to his grandmother, he’d ...
If a troupe of latter-day vaudevillians wandered into a pristine, 18th-century jewel-box theater and was inspired — or compelled — to perform Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” what might be the result? Mary ...
In 2014, British actor and theatre-maker Simon McBurney went to the Amazon rainforest. Twenty years earlier, he had been given a copy of Petru Popescu's book Amazon Beaming: an extraordinary account ...
If viewers can focus on its engaging young cast, vivid appearances by several international opera stars and well-executed melding of reality and fantasy, “The Magic Flute,” the latest film adaptation ...
The Santa Fe Opera's new staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute is a stunningly designed, acutely directed, and audience ...
Mozart's The Magic Flute, written in the last year of his life, was a forerunner of German Romantic opera. Critic Ted Libbey recommends a specific... Mozart's Forward-Looking 'Magic Flute' Mozart's ...
For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...