'Magic Flute' winds up Jun Kaneko's (intense, nonstop, decade-long) jaunt into opera

Jun Kaneko is a ceramics artist, a sculptor, a painter, a maker of public art -- and an opera designer. The last is a kind of aberration, a blip on his career radar. To date, he has created sets and costumes for three operas: "Madame Butterfly" (2006), "Fidelio" (2008), and "The Magic Flute" -- in a co-production with the San Francisco Opera, Opera Omaha, and the Washington National Opera -- which will, after performances at the other two houses, come to the Kennedy Center on Friday. (It will al...