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Sendak, Mozart, and The Magic Flute

March 17 through June 21, 2026

The beloved and acclaimed children’s book author Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) was also an avid opera lover who designed sets and costumes for several productions. In 1978 he was invited by Frank Corsaro to create designs for the Houston Grand Opera’s staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1791), which opened two years later. The Magic Flute, one of Sendak’s favorite operas, was the first theatrical production he worked on, and it marked the beginning of many future projects for the opera and ballet.

Autograph letter signed : Great Malvern, to William Angus Knight, 1891 February 26.

Coleridge, Edith, 1832-1911.

1891 February 26.

MA 9407.4

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Gospel book (MS M.640).

Created

Northeastern France or Liège, 850-950.

Accession number

MS M.640

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Ann Percy: An Acquiring Mind: John S. Philips, a Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Print Collector’s Taste for Drawings

Ann Percy, The Mainwaring Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, delivers her lecture An Acquiring Mind: John S. Phillips, a Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Print Collector’s Taste for Drawings on Saturday, March 5, 2016.