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The MAGIC FLUTE is: a.) an opera b.) a fairy tale c.) an allegory d.) sheer fantasy e.) loaded with profundities and symbolisms f.) fun entertainment for children and grown-ups g.) the ultimate in music transcending reality Would you believe - it's ALL OF THE ABOVE??? **** Click to Play or Stop Overture |
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DIEGO OPERA's MAGIC FLUTE  Designed Zandra Rhodes' costume sketches for San Diego Opera's THE MAGIC FLUTE. Other clips from the Magic Flute: Tamino's Dies Bildnis Queen of the Night |
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MOZART could have turned "all of the above"
into an opera for all seasons and for all ages. Over 200 years later,
"The Magic Flute" (or Die Zauberflöte)
is still staged year in and year out by opera houses all over the
world. In Southern California alone, by the end of January 2001 there will have been there different productions in the last 3 years: Los Angeles Opera's production played to sold-out audiences in the 1997-98 season. In November 2000, "The Magic Flute" (in English, with spectacular sets by Maurice Sendak) opened Opera Pacific's current season .  On January
20, 2001 San Diego Opera kicked off its season with a production
that was full of exotic and delightfully outrageous surprises. The
opera - with its bizarre mix of sorcery and morality, of dungeons
of darkness and temples of light, of menacing dragons and friendly
furry or feathered creatures, of scheming villains and high-minded
high priests, of a beautiful princess (saved by a handsome prince)
and a wicked Queen of the night - was just the vehicle to fire up
a costume designer's imagination. As it did Zandra Rhodes' - the famed
British fashion designer acclaimed for her outrageously chic designs
of the punk era. Of course the centerpiece as always was Mozart's
beautiful, wide-ranging music. But when the curtain opened, all eyes
were on the costumes created by Zandra Rhodes, shown at left with
her trademark pink hair. This was her first foray into costume design
for the operatic stage and, as her sketches above show, in opera her
boundless, theatrical imagination met its match. It is safe to say
that her first design for opera certainly won't be her last.Photos: courtesy of San Diego Opera |
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