The Magic Flute isolated exceptions, modern productions strongly reflect the creative preferences of the stage director. "The Magic Flute" is presently among the most frequently performed of all operas. On 28 December 1791, three and a half weeks after Mozart's death, his widow Constanze offered to send a manuscript score of "The Magic Flute" to the electoral court in Bonn. Nikolaus Simrock published this text in the first full-score edition (Bonn, 1814), claiming that it was "in accordance with Mozart's own wishes" ("Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung", 13 September 1815). "The Magic Flute" is noted for its prominent Masonic elements, although some scholars hold that
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