15 Oct 2007
San Francisco Opera's 'Magic Flute' a bit out of tune
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/15/DDIESPUOO.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/15/DDIESPUOO.DTL
(Photo by Terrence McCarthy)
Joshua Kosman [SF Chronicle, 15 October 2007]
One of the things that makes "The Magic Flute" so difficult to pull off is that Mozart's late opera begins as a comic-book fairy tale and then takes on philosophical weight - not always convincingly - as it goes along.