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Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: The Magic Flute

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(Photo Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Every year, the Met Opera ushers in the holidays with its abridged, English-language production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” delighting children and adults alike. This season was no exception. If anything, the 90-minute performance offered a welcome reprieve from a world that seems to have lost its bearings—and, oddly, slid back toward the {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Brings Back Historic ‘Magic Flute’ Performance to Cinemas This December

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(PHOTO CREDIT – Richard Termine) The Metropolitan Opera’s first-ever high-definition cinema transmission, Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” is headed back to cinemas this holiday season. The performance, which originally aired on Dec. 30, 2006 and will head to screens in U.S. cinemas on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025 with international dates varying in locations including Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and more. {…}
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Metropolitan Opera to Present Holiday Presentation of ‘The Magic Flute’

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(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s annual holiday presentation of Julie Taymor’s English-language adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” returns for 15 performances. The opera will be performed between Dec. 11 and Jan. 3, and will be conducted by Steven White, and Erin Yashima. The work will star Rainelle Krause, Zhengyi Bai, Aigul Khismatullina, Erin Morley, Joshua {…}
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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 {…}

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