This claim would appear to be correct, and given what we know about Mozart’s last opera, it is a wonder no one has tried doing this before. Masonic influences run deep in The Magic Flute — in its ...

Read our review of The Magic Flute, directed by David McVicar, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 3 November. The Magic Flute, premiered in 1791, remains one of the most performed operas ...

This autumn, the Magic Flute returns to the Royal Opera House stage in a revival of David McVicar’s acclaimed production. Running from 10 October to 3 November 2025, the Royal Opera House celebrates ...

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera invites audiences to experience a magical night of spellbinding music, fantasy, and philosophy in its upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” ...

A melody of notes laced through the air at the Little Theater Thursday evening as Cal State Fullerton’s Opera Theatre took audience members on a quest of love, determination and courage. Written by ...

Emanuel Schikaneder, a prolific stage comedian, singer, and skilled impresario, proposed to Mozart the creation of a new singspiel–a form of German musical theater that alternates spoken dialogue ...

On The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, in Simon McBurney’s production. The Met’s Magic Flute production is the handiwork of Simon McBurney. I wrote about the production at some length when it ...

Musical Theatre West is once again opening the doors for talented newcomers with its fifth annual New Works Reading Festival, offering musical theater writers the chance to showcase their work in a ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of The Magic Flute was made possible (as the program duly notes) by a grant from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. She did not get her money’s worth. Most ...