The Magic Flute (ballet) Theatres were titled in French, which was the official language of the Imperial Court as well as the language from which balletic terminology is derived. Ballet comique in one act The Magic Flute (ballet) La flûte magique (en. "The Magic Flute") (ru. «Волшебная флейта», "Volshebnaya Fleita") is a "ballet comique" in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo. Although it has the same title as Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute", the two works have no other connection. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School at the school's theatre on . The principal
The Magic Flute (1975 film) with the ominous face of Monostatos glimpsed over her shoulder. The scene in which Three Boys prevent Pamina's near-suicide takes place in the snow, and clearly not on the theater stage. The film was a great success. In its televised premiere (New Year's Day 1975), it reached a third of the population of Sweden, and in theatrical release it created "pandemonium at box offices around the world" (Pauline Kael) and delighted many critics. In her review in "The New Yorker", Kael wrote: Ingmar Bergman's film version of "The Magic Flute" is a blissful present, a model of how opera can