MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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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
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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