The Magic Flute

Emanuele Luzzati was a talented artist director and animator One of his best known short films was 1978s The Magic Flute set to the music from Mozarts twoact opera As a stage director Luzzati had mounted a lavish 1963 fullscale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story His animated The Magic Flute made fifteen years later was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards He followed the completion of the film with a childrens picture book that succinctly retells the story by Joseph Crisalli