Opera Hong Kong’s new production of The Magic Flute is a conundrum: the singing, acting and music are first rate, but they are let down by a misjudged concept and designs. Mozart’s final opera ...

The broadcasts debuted on Dec. 25, 1931, with Humperdinck’s "Hansel and Gretel," and are now the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history.

in “Flute” with silent-era intertitles to narrate the action. For accompaniment, dramatic passages from Mozart’s own solo keyboard music are played on a fortepiano. It all adds up to a whole ...

The flute is the closest instrument to the voice, and he played the flute like a singer, with great expression and lyricism. “But he never followed the sheet music. He did his own thing ...

Mozart’s beautiful music. It represents both high art and low art. In many opera houses, “Magic Flute” is a traditional Christmas show, propelling the fantasy story elements and flashy staging.

Mozart’s beautiful music. It represents both high art and low art. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. In many opera houses, “Magic Flute” is a traditional Christmas ...

Director Mary Zimmerman's "teeny tiny, itty-bitty music-hall" version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute" pays homage to grand opera without becoming entangled in the genre's ...

Goodness and purity win through: Egor Zhuravskii and Claire Lees as Tamino and Pamina in Opera North’s The Magic FluteTristram Kenton The fifth version of The Magic Flute I’ve seen from the company, ...

Many clocks contain musical mechanisms: table clocks, standing clocks, longcase clocks, flute-playing clocks ... cardboard, and sheet metal discs disappeared as sound recording media. Several ...

The sheet music itself was not scribed by Mozart, the composer of such famous works as The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, and Requiem (personally, I’m partial his Symphony No. 40).

Tamino (Billy Rude) and Pamina (Marlene Fernandez) with attendants (Russell Mernagh and Keanon Kyles) in “The Matchbox Magic Flute” at Shakespeare ... donned in traditional chamber music clothes, sit ...

If a troupe of latter-day vaudevillians wandered into a pristine, 18th-century jewel-box theater and was inspired — or compelled — to perform Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” what might be the ...