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
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