Magic Flute Diaries Toronto opera company, Opera Atelier, partnered with Sullivan Entertainment for the production, providing costumes, crew and cast. Opera Atelier co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Zingg were choreographers for dance numbers in the film. Pynkoski also played the role of the opera director in the film. 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
Western concert flute the transverse flute was redesigned. Now often called the "traverso" (from the Italian), it was made in three or four sections or joints with a conical bore from the head joint down. The conical bore design gave the flute a wider range and more penetrating sound without sacrificing the softer, expressive qualities. In addition to chamber music, the traverso began to be used in orchestral music. In the Baroque era, flutes become used in the scores of opera, ballet and chamber music. With this, composers wrote music for the flute. These included Praetorius, Schütz, Rebillé and Descoteaux, Quantz, Bach, Telemann,