The Isango Ensemble, one of the world’s most unusual, interesting and important theater and opera companies, doesn’t distinguish between African theater and European opera. Nor does the company from ...

South African opera company Dimpho Di Kopane's version of 'The Magic Flute' makes elder statesman Sarastro a tribal leader and… South African opera company Dimpho Di Kopane's version of 'The Magic ...

Three centuries after ancient Egypt’s pharaohs ended their rule, new African rulers built empires in the continent’s north and east. The Byzantine Empire also participated in these artistic and ...

There are many ways to tell a story, and Emanuel Schikaneder’s libretto to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved 1791 opera The Magic Flute is certainly pliable enough to have undergone numerous mutations ...

The simple, effective staging was a steeply raked, elevated timber floor with marimbas on each side at stage level and a rear scaffold carrying an elevated platform. The transfer in time and place of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. ArtsEmerson will welcome back the Isango Ensemble with their re-imagination of ...

“The Magic Flute” has received numerous modern and nontraditional interpretations over the years, but few have been as radical as the staging by South Africa’s Isango Ensemble, which has given ...

Fula Flute is a consort of West African, American and Canadian musicians who've been delving richly into Mande and Fulani traditional music and making it their own for the past eight years. The ...

One of Tanzania’s most endangered possessions isn’t its wildlife; it’s its music. Dozens of musical instruments – and the skill set to play them – are facing extinction in Tanzania, which is why ...

A new collaborative opera that blends Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and African music is coming to Tokyo this month, performed by South Africa-based Isango Portobello Productions. "The Magic Flute — ...