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Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): a guide to the best recordings

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Magic Flute was a welcome operatic success for Mozart during his hectic final year. Richard Wigmore considers ten decades of recordings of this enchanting masterpiece

The Queen of the Night in the Hall of the Stars, as imagined by German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel for a 1815 production of The Magic Flute (photography: Bridgeman Images)
The Queen of the Night in the Hall of the Stars, as imagined by German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel for a 1815 production of The Magic Flute (photography: Bridgeman Images)

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