The Schubert Club is embroiled in its Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, in case you hadn’t noticed. And as part of that festival, they’re showing Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 behind-the-scenes film The Magic Flute–popularly regarded as the finest operatic film ever made, probably because Bergman made nice with the artifice of live opera by lugging his camera equipment into a real-life Swedish opera house and even, on occasion, panning to the audience, indeed using them as characters. Swedish baritone Hakan Hagegard, immortalized by this film as Papageno as well as for being an all-around nice fella, is attending tonight’s showing. Our friend Stephanie Curtis The Movie Maven, from Minnesota Public Radio, hosts. Five smacks gets you in. www.schubert.org/Concerts-SongFest.html
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