As Kenneth Branagh lifers, we pretty much loved his 2006 English-translation Zauberflöte, which lightened Mozart's last opera into a romantic comedy (despite blood-soaked WWI trenchs).
Through idiosyncratic casting, Joseph Kaiser as hero Tamino sets off on a dangerous journey to wife Amy Carson's Pamina, guided by charismatic Benjamin Jay Davis' Papageno and a star cameo by René Pape's Sarastro.
Sure, it's not the ROH's chilly David McVicar production with feisty Damrau, Roschmann, and Keenlyside's Aspergery hero or Ingmar Bergman's Swedish language classic (uncut version on the 'tubes here), but it's modern and bright.
With a lean box office release that excluded the USA and a DVD footprint that blacklisted North American Region 1'ers, its a temperamental beast, but youtube managed to hogtie Branagh's unicorn in two parts.