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Bowler hats and lobsters: WNO's surreal Magic Flute returns

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Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 17 February 2019
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Sung in English)
Damian Iorio, Conductor
Dominic Cooke, Director
Julian Crouch, Set Designer
Kevin Pollard, Costume Designer
Ben Johnson, Tamino
Anita Watson, Pamina
Anna Siminska, Queen of the Night
Gareth Brynmor John, Papageno
James Platt, Sarastro
Jennifer Davis, First Lady
Kezia Bienek, Second Lady
Emma Carrington, Third Lady
Phillip Rhodes, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)
Claire Hampton, Papagena
Joe Roche, First Armoured Man
Simon Crosby Buttle, First Priest
Howard Kirk, Monostatos
Laurence Cole, Second Armoured Man
Welsh National Opera Chorus
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
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