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LE WEEKEND The Tolbooth. Stirling. Sun 25 May 0...
TRRHMAGIC FLUTE Festival Theatre,
Edinburgh, 29 May 00.
The whole fantasy of The Magic Flute is so unlikely that it might as well take place on the moon. And Scottish Opera have taken this to heart
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because for this new - v -. production, that's and Naomi ‘ ' where they've put it. ‘ '- -‘ ' ' r -. « .
To a striking back -' " '- z ' Arthur : x r " drop of planet earth Doyle :' :- n : - ' : ;.v w z ' - " a againstthe black ' ' ~: --: v- ;- , vastnessofspace, ' ' : The ’2.’ .. - Prince Tamino is a No-Neck Blues Band : 'z w ".r' :' gravity-defying --: : 1 :' " -- : z' ' ' ' astronaut who " v :- eventually settles on a Ghost ' lunar landscape to ' l v ' grapple with a large, tin-foil serpent. This is a fairly crazy Magic , Flute with an Space cadets stutter on inaugural mission bUSTED emavagam' b°'d 59‘ Clyde Auditorium. Sun 24 May on. of glass-fronted towering office blocks, full-size floating cars and panto like humour, except the opera audience don't laugh at the double ‘W 8 ‘°. l " l“. ‘ il : " v '. e ' entendres like they do when Stanley Baxter delivered them. H . l" ' 2/ '~ ; " .: ' f ' i v v 9." ' i "'
Yet for all its lavish reaching for enchantment, Jonathan Moore’s Flute l"! : ; ' ti ii- :--.i;'. l z" w i i just doesn't sit too comfortably with Mozart‘s music. Partly because Kit zit ' t'w :li' iv» tn.» .av w.» l. 'i Hesketh-Harvey’s new English translation can't be properly heard, so some Eliatw: "xi-w»: '2: 1‘s ~' l' .iwl tin; Mei, .4 ,‘;.-~ ; a :u in. .-.y , '1 : scenes feel laboured and over-lengthy. Iain Paton's Tamino is v.0". "Jr q‘ t 1"».- i,-,-‘..~.'~’;‘,-r~ ; mm.» :.h,.-.-p~: téwv .ll, 15' ' . w , . underdeveloped vocally. Roland Wood is a stalwart Papageno, with Gillian mu : ..'. ,2 . '_'»~. 'ii-w 2 ms-v‘, MT ,9' :l'l_.‘l,:’.",'! .21 l'w- Keith in the tiny role of his partner, Papagena, giving a fleeting glimpse of aw”. :x . l .iwiu rt" t M "“,)'.'.l""7"i'-. .‘wfi- If. i v ,: " .iw the quality of singing that should have been heard all night. (Carol Main) W2 A" uni” M: 3'22? 3w 1 'lildi i i: ; 'u:r~,.:t we. fix: Book now m an W. m: haunddhnuflwflbtfi Thhflliunhut Thhflnluflflndi
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