But after putting on numerous productions of the work in the past, BLO’s General and Artistic Director Esther Nelson determined to cast off the racism, misogyny, and historical irrelevancies of Emanuel Schikeneder’s original 18 th-century text. And surely the spiritual significance of passage into adulthood is as relevant today as always. Within a mythic conflict of sun and moon, light and dark, order and chaos, four contemporary college students journey inward to find love and greater wisdom.ĭespite its brief eclipse at the beginning of the modern period, Mozart’s last and greatest opera is now established as unrivaled. ![]() This contemporary reworking of Mozart’s final operatic fantasy, in performance through October 13th at the Shubert Theatre, updates the eighteenth-century libretto and resets the action among the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan. The Boston Lyric Opera’s Magic Flute, in a new English language adaptation that world-premiered at the Shubert Theater Friday night, reveals the Tao of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart not through words but ultimately through the music itself. ![]() ![]() The Magic Flute October 2013 Company Shot, set by John Conklin, costumes by Nancy Leary, lighting by Mark Stanley, photo credit Eric Antoniouīoston, MA – Boston Lyric Opera presents The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart World Premiere, New English Language Adaptation (through October 13).
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