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Betty Leigh Hutcheson
February 2007
Music
Twenty-First Century Exoticism: Taymor Does the Magic Flute
By
Betty Leigh Hutcheson
What do dancing bears, birds on stilts, and neon lights have in common? They are features of Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte
, directed by Julie Taymor, in the first new production by the Metropolitan Opera House in twenty years.
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