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Boston Baroque sheds light on Mozart `Magic' with rare opera performance
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BOSTON BAROQUE Martin Pearlman, artistic director At: Jordan Hall,
Friday night; repeats this afternoon
Friday night Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque gave a modern
audience the rare privilege of some bits of music, most probably
written by Mozart, that no one has heard in nearly 200 years.
The occasion was a concert performance of "The Philosopher's
Stone," a collaborative opera written by and for the company that a
year later produced "The Magic Flute." One duet from this work...