If you’re very lucky and all the planets are spinning in their correct alignments, when the theater lights go down and the curtain slowly rises, you just might experience magic — a rare occurrence ...

Obsession with lightshades: a scene from English Touring Opera's The Magic Flute Credit: Photo: Robert Workman English Touring Opera’s strong spring season is two parts adventurous to one part ...

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 ...

Yet here they are, singing and playing their hearts out in an exhilarating reprise of a trusted old favourite: Simon McBurney’s production of The Magic Flute, first staged in 2013 and now on its ...

THE MAGIC FLUTE, an opera by Mozart with spoken dialog, shortened and sung in English with projected subtitles, conducted by JoAnn Falletta, stage directed by Paul Mockovak and Julie Newell, with Adam ...

Matinees at 2:30 pm: July 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 25, 29; August 2, 5 Evenings at 8:00 pm: July 7, 19, 27, 31 Performed in German with English supertitles. Running time: TBA Mozart’s mystical adventure ...

21:10, Fri, Mar 1, 2024 Updated: 14:10, Sat, Mar 2, 2024 There are essentially three types of opera director: those who stick as faithfully as possible to the original composer's and librettist's ...

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Experience a season of heart-stopping, entertaining and spectacular opera this spring with English National Opera. Join us at the beautiful London Coliseum, where ENO performs some of the world's most ...

Turning late 18th-century humour into 21st-century humour is always a challenge. The nature of humour and what is permissible has moved on over the centuries and what the audiences found funny and ...