MOZART'S MAGIC FLUTE, that innocently expansive, made-up fairy tale cut with slices of Masonic mysticism, is probably the most durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a ...

THE MAGIC FLUTE, an opera by Mozart with spoken dialog ... And, it’s technically not an opera, but a “singspiel” (German for “sing – speak”) with the dialog spoken, making it very ...

In Mozart and Schikaneder’s singspiel, women lurk in the dark ... shapely phrases as the living embodiment of Tamino’s magic flute. Bryan Wagorn ran onstage “late,” a cup of coffee ...

This season’s run of the Taymor version, dubbed “The Magic Flute — Holiday Presentation,” opened on Friday with a rough let’s-put-on-a-show energy. The cast played broadly to its young ...

Many musical historians feel “The Magic Flute” is the precursor to the modern Broadway musical. It was written in singspiel style, meaning there is a lot of humor and both dialogue and songs ...

While most operas proceed with music throughout, “Zauberflöte” belongs to a genre called Singspiel ... Americans frequently call it “Magic Flute.” But for much of the 20th century ...