The Magic Flute (2006 film) 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 2005, it was announced that, as part of the 250th anniversary celebration of Mozart's birthday, a new film version of "The Magic Flute", set during World War I, was to be made, directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a translation by Stephen Fry. The film was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September
The Enchanted Pig (opera) by the witch and Adelaide. Offering herself to Adelaide as a spy to keep watch on the pig, Flora is enabled to release him and to live with him in human form happily ever after. In a review of the original production, the critic Michael Billington wrote in "The Guardian": "This is a show that proves opera, at its best, is source of magic and enchantment." In "The Independent", Paul Taylor called it an " exhilarating opera for children (and discerning adults)." Reviewing a 2009 production at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Rupert Christiansen wrote for "The Daily Telegraph": "Dove is