This is perhaps the most popular opera in the world, and it is an all-round challenge for any company—vocally and technically. The libretto calls for impossibilities: an immense serpent, a volcano, a ...

Orpheus and his flute: Tamino (Joseph Kaiser) soothes the elements with his magical music Fortunately with John McFarlane’s designs and Paule Constable’s painterly lighting there was plenty to delight ...

Like so many directors before her, Netia Jones turns her gaze back on itself for the new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflote that opens Garsington’s 2018 season. There’s something about the ambient ...

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (May 19-June 10), one of opera's most beloved works, receives its first new Met staging in 19 years from acclaimed English director Simon McBurney. In his Met debut, McBurney ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The School of Music, Theatre & Dance will host two free Opera Studio performances of a shortened ...

Opera at the Met may mean expensively lavish stagings with the world’s biggest stars, but that’s not all you’ll find at Lincoln Center. Running there now concurrently are revivals of two Mozart ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The director Simon McBurney creates a magical sound world in his theatrical production of Mozart’s classic at the Metropolitan Opera. Lawrence Brownlee and Erin Morley in the ...

Julie Taymor’s transcendent production of Mozart’s magical composition, seen this season in its full-length German version, stars Pretty Yende as Pamina, in her first Met performances since her ...

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This work is from the edition of 1000 lithographed by Charles Sorlier, printed by Mourlot, Paris and published on the occasion of the opening performance of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), 19 Febru ...