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FGO's Offbeat Magic Flute As Funny As It's Beautifully Sung by Bill Hirschman

In a classic opera depicting the battle between intellectual enlightenment and romanticism with allusions to ancient Masonic rituals, you don't expect a character to exclaim, "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" But this is director Jeffrey Marc Buchman's whimsical take on Mozart's The Magic Flute, one of the most popular operas of all time, in part, because its inherent irreverence begs to be enhanced with …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:32AM on February 1, 2013

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