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2019-08-06 11:43:38
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - Mozart's The Magic Flute broadcast from Glyndebourne
Mozart: The Magic Flute - David Portillo - Glyndebourne (Photo Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. / Bill Cooper) Mozart The Magic Flute; David Portillo, Björn Bürger, Sofia Fomina, Brindley Sherratt, Caroline Wettergreen, dir: Barbe & Doucet, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ryan Wigglesworth; Broadcast live from Glyndebourne OPera Reviewed by Anthony Evans on 4 August 2019 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Barbe & Doucet's picture-book production broadcast liveOn Sunday 4 August Mozart’s The Magic Flute was broadcast live from the 2019 Glyndebourne Festival. This new production by the renowned directing/design duo Barbe & Doucet took a playful, if not always illuminating, look at the opera’s gender politics. A young cast of singers led by Caroline Wettergreen (Queen of the Night), Sofia Fomina (Pamina), Björn Bürger (Papageno) and David Portillo (Tamino) were joined by Glyndebourne regular Brindley Sherratt as Sarastro. With Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the Orchestra of the Age of […]
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The Independant - Reviews
2019-07-22 06:28:00
Die Zauberflöte, Glyndebourne Festival Opera review: The show breaks free of director Renaud Doucet's contrived, PC rewrites
Running a politically correct lawnmower over the classics often wrecks them – but in many ways this is a hugely enjoyable show
2019-07-19 16:04:16
Barbe & Doucet’s production sets Mozart’s opera in an Edwardian hotel kitchen
2019-07-19 11:37:20
Glyndebourne, LewesThis magical, witty, irreverent production updates the action and politics to 1900s Vienna but still strikes some wrong notes Nobody ever came out of a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute thinking it made perfect sense. Glyndebourne’s irreverent, entertaining, sometimes magical new production, the UK debut from the design and direction team of Barbe & Doucet, follows its own fairytale logic. Their take on the opera is set inside a 1900s Viennese hotel, and, more specifically, inside the head of a sleepwalking guest, Tamino. In the overture, he nearly bumps into a maid as he drifts through the corridor. In his dream, he is attacked by a serpent made from the giant stack of plates she was carrying – and so it continues. Imagine you have checked in to a hotel room, turned on the TV, watched Downton Abbey, Masterchef and a BBC4 documentary about the suffragettes, then switched channels […]
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