This Magic Flute is a matchbox as full of visions as Andersen’s Little Match Girl’s—a box of treasures, a haze of marvels, a banquet of dreams, the very word delight—gossamer and fleeting.

Still, this “Magic Flute” has much to recommend and is a worthy, well-performed, often stirring and dazzling take on an enduring masterwork. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

Unlike perhaps the best-known screen version of “Flute,” Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 filmed record of his staged opera (first shown on Swedish TV, then released theatrically), this new iteration ...

There's not much magic left in Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute." Relocating the 1791 opera to WWI and adopting a hard-edged approach that worked for "Hamlet," Branagh has wrought a "Flute" for ...

We join flutist Emmanuel Pahud in concert in Chicago. First we hear Pahud with pianist Helene Grimaud and the "Flute Sonata" by Francis Poulenc. Grimaud ran into travel problems while getting to ...

There’s something especially cool about this director shrinking an allegorical Mozart opera down to 10 performers and premiering it in the Goodman’s studio space back in Chicago.

The Magic Flute Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. Music Center; 3,098 seats; $165 top Production: Los Angeles Opera presents W.A. Mozart's two-act opera to a text by Emanuel Schikaneder.