CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time Austrian theater and opera director Nikolaus Habjan heard “The Magic Flute,” at age 4, he was smitten, transfixed. He was a busy, restless child, but when he ...

To those of us who have followed the work of Mary Zimmerman all these years, her latest endeavor, “The Matchbox Magic Flute,” represents a kind of full circle. After starting her professional career ...

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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 result? Mary ...

When it comes to a work that is more than 200 years old, it’s hard to imagine there’s any surprises left. But if you happen to find yourself with a ticket to the Seattle Opera performance of Mozart’s ...