Opera Australia brought The Magic Flute to QPAC in May 2012.
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This rebroadcast is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. This video is an excerpt from the Metropolitan Opera's production of The Magic Flute in New York. In his Met-debut staging, McBurney lets loose a volley of theatrical flourishes, incorporating projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. Created in 1967, this work was inspired by a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute in which he created the sets and costume shown on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the audience and allow interaction with the cast. Email or phone: Password : Forgot account Sign Up. One of opera’s most beloved works, Die Zauberflöte ( The Magic Flute), 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 I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Lothar Koenigs conducts a dynamic cast of standout Mozarteans in Julie Taymors magical production, an enduring Met classic with its eye-popping puppetry and. 80K views, 1.3K likes, 253 loves, 100 comments, 446 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Metropolitan Opera: Julie Taymor’s dazzling production of The Magic Flute returns to select cinemas on.