Soundings: 'Flute' a visual paradise

Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is one of the best known and most accessible of operas in the literature, offering delightful melodies and immense possibilities for staging. Its fantasy-filled storyline, complete with flying genii and man-eating monster, wrapped around the themes of overcoming challenges in pursuit of enlightenment and pure love overcoming, is ripe for myriad approaches or interpretations.

By John Shulson

April 20, 2005