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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: The Magic Flute

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(Photos: © Met Opera) This holiday season’s production of Metropolitan Opera’s “The Magic Flute” brings joy and grandiosity to Met Opera’s stage, and audience members of all ages. Julie Taymor’s beloved production is a nostalgic showcase of thoughtful set designs, costume designs, and dancing. This is the abridged, English adapted version of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” designed to run in under {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘The Magic Flute’ in HD for Holiday Season

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(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to showcase its first-ever high-definition transmission into cinemas. The company will show Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in select cinemas for the holiday season as part of the 2024–25 Live in HD season. The encore will be shown in select U.S. theaters on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 1 p.m. local {…}

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The Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘The Magic Flute’ for the Holiday Season

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(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present the annual holiday presentation of Julie Taymor’s English-language adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The opera will be performed 17 times from Dec. 12 to Jan. 4. The production is set to star tenor Duke Kim and soprano Aigul Khismatullina as well as Kathryn Lewek who has {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: The Magic Flute

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Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera This year’s season opener of the Met’s “The Magic Flute,” on December 8th, 2023, was another high-energy holiday extravaganza. The family-friendly annual production by Julie Taymor was a familiar favorite to many; its rich fantasy world of magical symbolism dazzled and delivered. However, what set the bar for this year’s production apart from others, {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Present Holiday Version of ‘The Magic Flute’

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(Credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to celebrate the holiday season with its production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The company will present the work 13 times performances between December 8–30. The English-language adaptation runs under two hours and features a production by Tony Award–winning director Julie Taymor. Patrick Furrer and Gareth Morrell share conducting duties, {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: The Magic Flute

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(Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) During the holiday season, the Met’s annual presentation of a family-friendly, abridged version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” sung in English is a treat for the young and the young-at-heart. The show’s runtime is shy of two hours, and the Julie Taymor production, though getting a bit dated, offers plenty of spectacle and goofiness to {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Watch This Before the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Fedora’ & ‘The Magic Flute’

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This month the Metropolitan Opera celebrates the holiday season with three productions opening. So we will continue our series that introduces newcomers to opera through film. Opera can be daunting and while some works are more well-known than others, those that have never been to the opera, don’t have the same connection to certain works as traditional operagoers do. This {…}

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‘The Magic Flute’ Returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Holiday Presentation

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive the holiday presentation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The opera will be presented nine times starting Dec. 16 in the English-language adaptation which runs under two hours. Julie Taymor’s production returns to the Met with conductor Duncan Ward leading a stellar cast that includes tenors Ben Bliss and David Portillo as Tamino and {…}

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Rolando Villazón Headlines Metropolitan Opera’s ‘The Magic Flute’

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to celebrate the holiday season with its family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” for nine performances. The opera, which opened on Dec. 10, 2021, is set to run until Jan. 5, 2022. The English-language adaptation of the classic fairy tale, performed in a 115-minute abridged version is directed by Julie Taymor. The production will {…}