The Magic Flute, Superflute Livestream 3, 25, 2023

POP brings back its 2019 seasonopening tourdeforce production of Mozarts The Magic Flute AKA, Superflute, set in classic video games from the early 1990s. The super production transports Papageno, Tamino, and the gang to the land of video games resembling Mario Bros. and Zelda with a new English libretto by Artistic Director Josh Shaw and E. Scott Levin. Opera Magazine wrote that the new production could bring in a new generation of operagoers and Opera Today raved Pacific Opera Projects rollicking new take on The Magic Flute is as much endearing fun as a box full of puppies. And as ingenious Artistic Director Josh Shaw has reimagined the piece (marketed as, Superflute), the staging is also just about as relentlessly and adorably rambunctious, all the while proving to be commendably musically refined I loved it. I think Mozart would have loved it. If not, to hell with him