Love... magic... destiny. Springfield Regional Opera presents a much-loved operatic fairy tale for young and old, Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Friday and Saturday April 13 and 14 at 7:30pm at the Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East. I talked with SRO’s Artistic Director Michael Spyres about the production. The well-known tenor is not performing in it (he just got back to Springfield from a stint singing the lead role of Vasco de Gama in Frankfurt Opera’s production of Meyerbeer’s “L’Africaine”)—but his wife AND his brother are both in “Magic Flute.” Michael Spyres calls “Magic Flute” “one of the beloved operas of all time—and one of the most enigmatic as well,” because of the work’s many possible layers of interpretation: faith, constancy, good vs. evil, and the numerous Masonic references. The production is sung in German, but spoken in English; that’s because “Magic Flute” is what, in German musical terminology, is referred to as a “Singspiel”: there is both vocal music and spoken
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