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INGMAR BERGMAN HAS left the New Wave and its tormented pessimism far behind. His light-hearted, sunny, extraordinarily intelligent film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute proves that the judicious egotism of one master can actually enhance the genius of another. Bergman has gotten both practical and romantic all of a sudden; having perceived all the traditional problems of staged opera, he has pretty much solved them all, making room for his own rose-tinted theatrics. To make the story move more smoothly he shuffled several scenes out of their original order, omitted a few, altered the plot...
...libretto. But he's done the rest of us a service--to the uninitiated The Magic Flute's message can be hard to fathom, seeming alternately simpleminded and ponderously abstract. The opera is an allegorical celebration of the ideals of the Masonic brotherhood, a secret, illegal society to which Mozart belonged, and the elaborate rituals that take up over half the opera are closely modeled on the initiation rites of the Order. Eighteenth century audiences would have instantly recognized the political allusions couched in the story: the feud between the Queen of the Night and the High Priest over possession...
...MAGIC FLUTE. Mozart and Ingmar Bergman: a combination made somewhere in the higher celestial regions. An ebullient and quite ravishing version of Mozart's morality tale that is part recreation, part reinterpretation...
Music 180 Concert featuring a Mozart wind serenade, Stravinsky songs, and the Ravel piano trio. Paine Hall...
Sheila Rheinhold, violvin, and Max Sung, -iano, perform music of Mozart, Kreisler, and Debussy. Holmes Hall...