By Jenny Callison
Enquirer contributor

Flutist Morrigan O'Brien, a senior at Lakota East High School, is featured at this week's Mozart Festival. (Joseph Fuqua II photo)

HAMILTON - Flutes figure prominently in this weekend's Mozart Festival.

For instance, there's a performance of Mozart's comic opera, The Magic Flute, complete with Masonic mysteries, enchantments and a couple of wacky bird lovers.

Saturday's chamber concert features flutist Morrigan O'Brien, a senior at Lakota East High School.

IF YOU GO

Here's the lineup of activities for the seventh annual Mozart Festival this weekend in Hamilton. Events are free except where noted. Today, 6 to 9 p.m.: Art show, concert and reception featuring three art exhibitions and performances by young musicians. Fitton Center for Creative Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave. Saturday, 10 a.m.: Lane at Fitton, a music program for children 6 to 9, featuring music Mozart wrote when he was a child. The program is at the Fitton Center. Reservations: 894-1409. Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.: City sculpture tour, which includes an unveiling at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park. $15, which includes box lunch. Reservations are required. Saturday, 5 p.m.: Chamber concert with Morrigan O'Brien and Brendan Kinsella, Presbyterian Church, 23 Front St. Saturday, 6 to 10 p.m.: "Feast and Frolic Dinner," Hamiltonian Hotel. $35. Reservations required. Sunday, 3:30 p.m.: Mozart grand finale concert featuring The Magic Flute. St. Julie Billiart Church, 224 Dayton St. For more information about the Mozart Festival, call 895-5151 or visit Web site.

Although those two concerts form the festival's musical centerpiece, there are activities all weekend. An art show, reception and performance by the Great Miami Youth Symphony open the festival today. Saturday, events conclude with a "Feast and Frolic Dinner," where organizers promise an appearance by Wolfgang Amadeus himself ... joined by Elvis.

The Parochial Honors Chorus performs Sunday just before the stage is set for a concert version of The Magic Flute.

An array of vocal soloists joins the Hamilton Fairfield Symphony Orchestra and Chorale.

"What started as a dream has grown into a three-day, over-the-top celebration of one of music's greatest geniuses," said Paul Stanbery , the orchestra's music director.

O'Brien actually flaunts her flute chops twice: at today's reception she will perform a jazz piece with Stanbery; on Saturday she'll team up with a College-Conservatory of Music grad student, pianist Brendan Kinsella, to play a Mozart sonata.

"This is my first year playing at the Mozart Festival, and my first paying job," said O'Brien, who Stanbery calls one of the best high school flutists in the country.