Sunlight and Shadow by Cameron Dokey

[meganbmoore]

This is based on the opera The Magic Flute which I’m not familiar with

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[kakkobean]

I first heard the storybook on tape, which was apparently very different from the original in that it had a girl from our world trying to learn how to play music from the opera and hating the stupid thing only to somehow end up stuck in the world of the play.
I like that version of the story much better than the other version I saw, which was a cartoon movie--admittedly, because the movie didn't have any of the songs from the opera in it.
...that was very unhelpful. Crap. Well, the music is worth it.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I definitely want something with the music.

[animeshon]

The Magic Flute was always one of my favourite Mozart operas. That being said there are a lot of interesting versions of it available (including The Smurfs but I do recomend both the Keneth Branagh film (which is reset in World War I) and the Ingrid Bergman film - both of which use the concept of Sarastro being Pamina's father.

I vaguely remember reading a Marion Zimmer Bradley book too, Daughter of the Night or something. It was when I was in my Bradley phase but I remember enjoying it.

[meganbmoore]

I'll check out both movies, thanks. Bradley I tend to be a bit leery of.

[animeshon]

Yeah when I've read Bradley more recently I've found I'm not a big fan, but as a teenager I read just about everything of hers I could get my hands on. Mostly because fantasy books with heroines as opposed to heroes were in short supply, but also because I loved the historical/mythological context of The Firebrand and The Mists of Avalon

[irysangel]

I have heard that Cameron Dokey is a house name, not a real author. Like James Axler, where projects are just farmed out as WFH. You'll notice 'she' writes that entire line.

[meganbmoore]

Dokey is writing most/all of the ones coming out now, but there are a lot with different authors prior to the last year or two. It wouldn't surprise me if Dokey was a house name, though. Most/all of the books by the author seem to be the prolific author of house lines.

[irysangel]

Oh, maybe I'm wrong! Maybe it's another author. Cameron Dokey has a profile on Wikipedia at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Dokey

[southerndave]

The Magic Flute (or, at least, the Mozart version) is apparently all full of Masonic symbolism that you have to actually be a Mason to understand. It's still a well known opera though. However the only other thing about it I know is that what is probably Florence Foster Jenkins' most famous performance is the Queen of the Night aria from that opera. Florence Foster Jenkins is (in)famous for being the World's Worst Opera Singer Ever Of All Time. There's a recording of the performance on her Wikipedia page, but I don't recommend it to you unless you'd gain amusement from an utterly wretched opera singer squawking like a demented budgerigar.

[nebulia]

The Magic Flute is def. my favorite Mozart opera. There's an animated version I saw when I was little, an adaptation of the opera that was actually almost entirely singing, but I couldn't tell you where to find non-abridged/adapted versions of the opera. It's really quite lovely, though.