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Opera Review 'Die Zauberflöte'
Magical Puppets Brought to Life by Opera

If only all journeys to enlightenment were as whimsical and lighthearted as the route chosen by Julie Taymor in her magical production of Mozart’s “Zauberflöte,” whose revival at the Metropolitan Opera opened Saturday. Ms. Taymor’s vision of Mozart’s opera, a fairy-tale allusion to Freemason rituals, features elegantly cheerleading bear puppets, a hilariously campy dance by Monostatos’s slaves, the dramatic entrance of a white-winged Queen of the Night and a charming duet in which Papageno and Papagena dream of baby Papageni.