THE MAGIC FLUTE
AKA "SUPERFLUTE"

El Portal Theater
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601

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WEEKEND 1

Friday Mar 17, 2023 | 8:00pm

Saturday Mar 18, 2023 | 7:00pm

Sunday Mar 19, 2023 | 3:00pm

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WEEKEND 2

Friday Mar 24, 2023 | 8:00pm

Saturday Mar 25, 2023 | 3:00pm

Sunday Mar 26, 2023 | 3:00pm

POP brings back its 2019 season-opening tour-de-force production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute AKA #Superflute, set in classic video games from the early 1990s. The “super” production transports Papageno, Tamino, and the gang to the land of video games resembling Mario Bros. and Zelda with a new English libretto by Artistic Director Josh Shaw and E. Scott Levin. Opera Magazine wrote that the new production "could bring in a new generation of opera-goers” and Opera Today raved “Pacific Opera Project’s rollicking new take on The Magic Flute is as much endearing fun as a box full of puppies. And as ingenious Artistic Director Josh Shaw has reimagined the piece (marketed as #Superflute), the staging is also just about as relentlessly and adorably rambunctious, all the while proving to be commendably musically refined… I loved it. I think Mozart would have loved it. If not, to hell with him!”