The special affection long-time Houston Grand Opera patrons have for "The Magic Flute" can be attributed, at least in part, to the charming Maurice Sendak-designed production the company premiered in 1980. Revived on several occasions, the production set a standard for projecting the work's universally enjoyable aspects, with the potentially puzzling ones still there, just less prominent. Yet the back wall sometime…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle at 05:40PM on February 2, 2015