Magic flute opera

This year marks the 220th year since The Magic Flute, Mozart's final opera first premièred in Vienna. In fact, this was the money-making opera for Mozart since he's beset by financial difficulties, owing many people money. I actually planned to write this to commemorate it on its premier date, 30 September, but the recent situation involving how the government reacts to the planned Bersih rally, which I admit that they have gone bonkers and delusional coupled with throwing bewildering…

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“Karl Friedrich Schinkel, detail of the arrival of the Queen of the Night, stage set for Mozart’s Magic Flute (1815).”

GRAND OLD OPERA: Lewek, who performed as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute with the Nashville Opera in April, will debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the same role in December. (Photo: Courtesy of the Nashville Opera)

The Magic Flute - The Royal Opera House

Mozart’s Magic Flute may be a “timeless masterpiece,” an “immortal classic” full of music that will last forever. It’s also very specifically a child of 1791. Everything about this opera—its plot, characters, world, range of musical styles, and themes—makes much more sense when considered in its historical context. Musically, The Magic Flute is hugely significant as the first great Zauberoper, the German tradition of popular musical theater on fantasy subjects that eventually gives us such…

Mozart's The Magic Flute (2006)

Contrast colours of ROH poster is eye catching the main use of this would to make sure colour is in contrast with images used

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The Magic Flute is one of my favourite operas and singing Der Holle Rache was my party trick in school.