Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Encore, Encore

Forget, for a minute, the dancing bears, the massive serpent, the sorcerer and the evil queen. At the heart of Mozart’s final opera, The Magic Flute, are a boy and a girl. The 1791 tale of love trumping all is one for the ages — and, thanks to the Metropolitan Opera, the original German libretto is now accessible to all ages, too. Abridged, translated into English, and embellished with a veritable circus of puppetry and set design, producer Julie Taymor’s 2004 version of the opera is decidedly kid friendly — and the tricky special effects are way more seamless than her work on the recent Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Through the magic of rebroadcasting, Palace 9 screens Flute locally next Wednesday.