"The idea of me writing an opera and for it to be a continuation of The Magic Flute sounds ridiculous, it was and is, not only was I grappling with the genius of Mozart but I had Goethe to contend ...

The opera, which is set to premiere in Paris next Thursday (March 27), is based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1807’s The Magic Flute Part II. The 1791 original was an opera in two acts to a ...