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The Magic Flute
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff
WELSH National Opera’s new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is a lovely addition to the company’s repertoire and will bring joy to audiences of all ages.
Director Daisy Evans has a sure touch for comedy and sympathetically highlights the singers during their key arias.
What Evans has done is to lose some of the opera’s misogynist elements and refocus it away from the mysticism and romanticism of freemasonry.
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