Mozart's Magic Flute at Longborough

By Charlotte Valori, 18 July 2017

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“Director Thomas Guthrie has contributed plenty of energy and ideas to his vivid production”

Reviewed at Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh on 15 July 2017

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Longborough Festival Opera

Anthony Negus, Conductor

Thomas Guthrie, Director

Ruth Paton, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Julian Hubbard, Tamino

Beate Mordal, Pamina

Hannah Dahlenburg, Queen of the Night

Grant Doyle, Papageno

Jihoon Kim, Sarastro

Colin Judson, Monostatos

Katherine Crompton, First Lady

Sioned Gwen Davies, Second Lady

Carolyn Dobbin, Third Lady

Sarah Gilford, Papagena

Benjamin Bevan, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)

Emyr Wyn Jones, First Priest

Ryan Davies, Second Priest

Aaron O'Hare, Third Priest

Gabriel Seawright, First Armoured Man

Alexander Fritze, Second Armoured Man

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

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