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Lobsters, bowler hats and The Financial Times: The Magic Flute given Magritte makeover by Welsh National Opera

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Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 13 February 2015
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Lothar Koenigs, Conductor
Dominic Cooke, Director
Kevin Pollard, Costume Designer
Julian Crouch, Set Designer
Sophie Bevan, Pamina
Samantha Hay, Queen of the Night
Allan Clayton, Tamino
Jacques Imbrailo, Papageno
Scott Wilde, Sarastro
Camilla Roberts, First Lady
Claire Hampton, Papagena
Máire Flavin, Second Lady
Emma Carrington, Third Lady
Philip Lloyd Holtam, First Armoured Man
Howard Kirk, Monostatos
Ashley Holland, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)
Aidan Smith, Second Armoured Man
Caroline Chaney, Revival Director
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