Spring 2016 Friends Preview - Magical Designs for Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Date and Time
March 29, 2016
Event Details
For donors at the Friend Level ($50) or higher
Enjoy this exclusive opportunity to examine the beautiful and historic costume and set designs for this well-loved opera by exceptional artists, such as Maurice Sendak and Julie Taymor, before it opens to the general public.
Magical Designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute is a unique comparative exhibition of outstanding designs for Mozart’s sublime opera on loan from leading European and American opera collections. The beautiful and historic designs are accompanied by splendid costumes, set pieces, models and colorful animals as well as printed music illustrations from the late 17th and 18th centuries selected from The New York Public Library for the Performing Art’s
peerless collections.
Guided tours of the exhibition will be offered at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Please present your membership ID card or invitation, which admits four people.
For more information, please call the Friends Office at 212.930.0653.
The “Magic Flute” exhibition is organized by the Kent State University Museum in partnership with The Library for the Performing Arts and curated by acclaimed theater designer Judy Levin. The Kent State University Museum is supported by a sustainability grant from the Ohio Arts Council and gratefully acknowledges the support of Moshe Amitay, Noach and Joan Amitay, Thrive Integrated Physiotherapy, Edna Erez, and Anitra B. Webster.
Support
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Additional support for exhibitions has been provided by Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg and the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation.