WNO offers "Magic Flute" in color-saturated Jun Kaneko production

I have no statistics to back this up, but it's my impression that of all operas, "The Magic Flute" has a particular siren call to artists from other disciplines. Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Maurice Sendak, William Kentridge and Julie Taymor are among the best-known entrants in a long list of non-opera specialists who have tackled this, opera's ultimate fairy tale. So, ceramics artist Jun Kaneko, whose sets and costumes dominate the "Magic Flute" that opened at the Washington National Opera on S...