Houston Grand Opera’s presentation of Mozart’s final masterpiece, The Magic Flute, a co-production between Komische Oper Berlin and London avant-garde theater company 1927, is one for the ages. You haven’t seen anything quite like it. It is spellbinding, amazingly theatrical, state-of-the-art, and thoroughly mesmerizing. A feat of theater prestidigitation of the highest caliber, it raises the bar for all operas yet to come. Whether this is good for the future of the art, I don’t quite know, for Herr Mozart takes second place to all the visual shenanigans that surround his sublime music.
