Houston Grand Opera sends Mozart's comic fantasy into a whimsical nineteenth-century hotel filled with black-and-white storybook scenery, puppetry, sly visual jokes, and an underground suffragette movement led by the Queen of the Night. Tamino becomes a sleepwalking guest, while Sarastro's kitchen guards its secrets with ceremonial seriousness. The playful staging keeps the adventure approachable, but the famous arias and full HGO Orchestra still deliver the musical brilliance that has made th.