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The Magic Flute: A beginner's guide to Mozart's operas
Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, is a fantastical tale that’s as moving as it is witty, and features some of Mozart’s most beautiful pieces
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GalleryA handsome prince
Act 1 opens with the handsome Prince Tamino being chased by a poisonous snake. He faints just as the snake is about to unleash its deadly bite, but the creature is killed by three ladies, servants of The Queen of the Night before it can attack the Prince.
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Pavol Breslik, Sabina Cvilak, mezzo-soprano Barbara Heising and mezzo-soprano Julia Oesch perform Mozart's opera 'the Magic Flute' directed by Polish Krystian Lupa and conducted by English Daniel Harding during the international lyric arts festival, Aix-en-Provence, 2006
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