The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote)
From: Tuesday, 5th February 2013
To: Sunday, 3 March 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Bizarre and spellbinding. The Magic Flute features two love stories, a serpent, a Queen, a High Priest and a comedian, whose intrigues unfold to the beauty of Mozart's most popular opera score and Schikaneder's witty dialogue
Our Review:
11 February 2013
Merry Opera Company’s The Magic Flute uses an imaginative, sparky new translation/version by Kit Hesketh-Harvey who also directs. His central innovation is to place the opera within the sick, distraught Mozart’s life in 1791. It is a good idea which helps to make sense of the ordeals and fantasy with Mozart becoming Tamino, fellow Mason, and the original librettist, Schikaneder as Papageno and Constanza as Pamina. The dragon at the beginning has, as its scales, the unpaid bills which are plaguing both Mozart and his wife – and the opera is full of such neat touches.
The music arranged (by Nick Allen) for a five piece band led by Stephen Hose at the piano works well because the pared down texture, using violin, viola, cello and woodwind exposes strands in the music that sometimes go unnoticed. Niall Webb does an especially impressive job moving seamlessly between clarinet and flute.
And so to the cast of thirteen most of whom sing several ...
Cast
Nicholas Allen (cello)
Neil McTaggart (violin)
Elise Bergersen (viola)
Mark Chivers (viola)
Niall Webb (woodwind)
Stephen Hose (piano)
Fleur de Bray (Queen of the Night)
Daisy Brown (Pamina)
Dario Dugandzic (Papageno)
Kristin Finnigan (Third Lady)
Thomas Faulkner (Sarastro)
James Harrison (Papageno)
Elisabeth Marshall (Queen of the Night)
Lawrence Olsworth-Peter (Tamino/Mozart)
Joe Morgan (Tamino/Mozart)
Gemma Morsley (Papagena)
Matthew Quirk (Sarastro)
Catarina Sareno (Pamina)
Glenn Tweedie (Monastatos)
Creative
Mozart (Music)
Schikaneder (Lyrics)
The Merry Opera Company (Company)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Translation)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Adaptation)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Director)
Stephen Hose (Musical Director)
Preece Killick (assistant) (Director)
Paul Chantry (Choreographer)
Rae Piper (Choreographer)
Sophia Simensky (Design)
Fiona Russell (Costume)
Derek Carlyle (Lighting)
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