NEW YORK — Tell me something new about “The Magic Flute.” If you’re an opera lover, it’s a challenge. “The Magic Flute” is often our first opera, presented in shortened children’s versions that get across the basic fairy tale of a prince who overcomes trials to win his princess. It’s also a last opera: the final opera Mozart premiered (though he was only 35), and now the final essay of the great stage director Peter Brook, who took on this piece as his swan song before his departure from the French theater company he created in 1970, housed at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Read full article >>