Dima Bawab and Thomas Dolié in a scene from Peter Brook’s “A Magic Flute.” Stephanie Berger Subtract the magic and the flute from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and you’d think there’d be nothing. But an ...

AS omens go, this was a prom ising one: During the rainiest June in memory, the financially strapped New York City Opera dared to offer an outdoor performance — and an estimated 3,000 New Yorkers ...

Piccolo, recorder to pan pipe, a fleet of flutes and non-reed woodwind instruments will blow through your song suggestions “Blow on this,” someone said. And whatever happened next must have brought ...