The Magic Flute (2006 film) the film a mixed review. "Total Film" mistakenly blamed Mozart for the "silliness of the story". In 2009, three years after the release of the film, Roger Lanser, who has photographed several other Kenneth Branagh-directed films, received a Cinematographer of the Year Award from the Australian Cinematographers Society for his work on "The Magic Flute". The Magic Flute (2006 film) The Magic Flute is Kenneth Branagh's English-language film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel "Die Zauberflöte". The film is a co-production between France & the UK, produced by Idéale Audience and in association with UK's Peter Moores Foundation. In November
Libretto of The Magic Flute to draw a generalized observation from the proceedings on stage in order to promote virtue or condemn vice." Cairns attributes a taste for "didactic sentiment" specifically to the Viennese popular theater. Concerning "The Magic Flute" specifically, Rosen writes that it "develops ... a conception of music as a vehicle for simple moral truths." The opera's didacticism is concentrated in passages of poetry, set in the ensemble scenes, in which the characters cease to converse with each other and join in singing an edifying lesson to the audience. One example is found in the first act, just after Monostatos and his