Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with an abridged holiday presentation of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Most first-time directors take it a bit easy with their inaugural movies. Before he chronicled rampaging dinosaurs and killer sharks, Steven Spielberg made Duel, a simple movie about a man in a car ...

Among all the versions I’ve seen over the years, I cannot recall a “Magic Flute” that came close to Seattle Opera’s new production in one fascinating respect. Witnessing it at McCaw Hall on Saturday ...

At the first glance, The Magic Flute appears to be your regular, run-of-the-mill YA fantasy movie: a young boy with a distinctive scarf goes to a faraway school, where he discovers a magical land ...

Smurf fans rejoice! On August 14, 2012, the original full-length animated feature The Smurfs and the Magic Flute will finally debut on DVD for the first time in the U.S. from Fabulous Films. Based on ...

“Must-see” is an overused superlative. But in the case of Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” it is totally appropriate. You must see it to believe it. With its unique ...

Whether crisis becomes catastrophe remains to be seen, but there couldn’t be a more emphatic portent of success, a better-timed metaphor, than this Magic Flute. Frankly a bit of a dud on its first ...

There's not much magic left in Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute." Relocating the 1791 opera to WWI and adopting a hard-edged approach that worked for "Hamlet," Branagh has wrought a "Flute" for high ...

Legendary British stage director Peter Brook has made a career of deconstructing and reinvestigating the classics. He rearranged the soliloquies in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and cut the chorus from ...

There's a quite telling moment near the beginning of A Magic Flute, the new adaptation of Mozart's opera directed by theater legend Peter Brook that is now up in New York as part of the Lincoln Center ...