Mozart: Die Zauberflöte ****
Garsington Opera, 31st May 2018
“Square your actions and circumscribe your desires.” Across the façade of a great house, the square and compass – symbols of Freemasonry – are projected as brothers busily work at architectural designs in the box-hedged garden. Mozart himself was a Mason, so it’s fair game for director Netia Jones to turn Tamino’s quest for Enlightenment into a path of initiation into Sarastro’s Lodge. But in her production, opening Garsington Opera’s 30th season, is the Queen of the Night really a dark force? What does Sarastro’s realm represent? Who is telling the truth? What is truth?
Louise Alder (Pamina) with Lucas Rebato, Frederick Jemison, Dionysios Sevastakis (Three Boys)
© Johan Persson
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