Magic Flute Diaries Magic Flute Diaries Magic Flute Diaries is a film inspired by Mozart's classic opera, "The Magic Flute". It does "not" use the plot of the opera. The film was released in 2008 by Sullivan Entertainment. "Magic Flute Diaries" won the award for Best Family Film in the 2008 Staten Island Film Festival. Tom (Warren Christie), a young classical singer, reluctantly accepts the lead role in a production of "The Magic Flute" during Mozart’s 250th birthday celebration in Salzburg at the urging of his girlfriend Sandy (Kelly Campbell). As rehearsals unfold, Tom is captivated by the magical power of Mozart’s final
Orlando (opera) operas’ (Handel and the Opera Seria, p. 91), comparable on several counts with "The Magic Flute". The opera is scored for two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, strings and continuo (cello, lute, harpsichord). Orlando (opera) Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's "L'Orlando" after Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", which was also the source of Handel's operas "Alcina" and "Ariodante". More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, "Orlando" is today recognised