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“The Magic Flute” by the Lyric Opera of Chicago is imagined as directed by a group of neighborhood kids in the 1950s and staged around a midcentury home.
The Magic Flute opera
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Andrew Staples, center, playing Tamino, has fainted and is looked over by three ladies in waiting played by Ann Toomey, from left, Lauren Decker and Annie Rosen on Dec. 8, 2016, in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production of “The Magic Flute.” 
