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Arts ahead: 24th January 2015
The Star’s critics look ahead to The Magic Flute, The Songs of Ewan MacColl, John Yeadon’s Englandia and A Study of Modern Japanese Sculpture
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
CARDIFF/TOURING OPERA: The Magic Flute
At the Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, February 13-28
Mozart’s most famous opera is a story of young people finding their place in the world, working out for themselves what is true and what is false, what is right and what is quite wrong — a journey through darkness into the light. This family-friendly production combines Mozart’s sublime music with surreal staging featuring an angry lobster, a newspaper-reading lion and a fish doubling as a bicycle. Its rich mix of comedy, pantomime, philosophy and religion makes it an ideal introduction to Mozart’s opera, especially for children.
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