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| Zandra Rhodes Poster for The Magic Flute |
Mozart's The Magic Flute, which was the opening opera for the 2001 San Diego Opera season, featured costumes designed by Zandra Rhodes. The final opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this was Zandra's opera design debut. Filled with fantastic and mythical characters, The Magic Flute was the perfect setting for Zandra's exotic and imaginative costumes. From her stunning Queen of the Night to her delightful Papageno and Papagena, Zandra's costumes made the opera a feast for the eyes. Her fabulous creations were beautifully offset by the scintillating jewelry designed by her longtime friend and fellow brilliant artist Andrew Logan.
Crowds lined up not only for the opera but for various exhibits and lectures that showed her sketches, drawings, and costumes illuminating all of the creative energy and work necessary to achieve a project of this magnitude.
San Diego Opera fans were lucky enough to have another chance to see Zandra's costumes in The Magic Flute, which made an encore performace in May 2006. For information, visit the San Diego Opera website at http://www.sdopera.com.
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Zandra's final drawings for characters in The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night, Slave, and Monostatos
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