Over the past five months, I began “The Magic Flute Project.” The final product of the project will be an adaptation of Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute, into an illustrated book. My attention these last months was given to establishing a sound foundation from which to continue the project, which involved writing the story and developing its visual design. The book will feature, in reproduction, illustrations painted in watercolor, a medium which best evokes the fluidity and physical transparency of music, lending a visual sound to a medium that is otherwise silent. The book will also contain a complete prose text of The Magic Flute, which I have re-written and altered from the original opera.