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Opera San Jose - The Magic Flute

P hotograph Copyright  ©  2015 A lexander Chow-Stuart. Our whole family hugely enjoyed the dress rehearsal today of Opera San Jose’s production of Mozart’s sublime The Magic Flute , opening this Saturday.   Hudson and Paradise had never seen an opera before, and this homeschool-only full dress rehearsal was a wonderful opportunity for them to enjoy their introduction both to the drama and magic of The Magic Flute (read this  fascinating entry at Wikipedia  about its history), and to the beauty of its music and voices.  The production was a great mix of classical and contemporary, totally engaging, and attracting prolonged applause and whistles from its young audience at its conclusion. It was definitely less radical than the Peter Sellars Magic Flute , set in LA with skateboards, that I saw (and enjoyed) at Glyndebourne some years back. P hotograph Copyright  ©  2015 A lexander Chow-Stuart. We also loved the historic California Theater , which originally opened in