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An incandescent Magic Flute from Mark Wigglesworth at ENO

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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 5 February 2016
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor
Simon McBurney, Director
Michael Levine, Set Designer
Nicky Gillibrand, Costume Designer
Lucy Crowe, Pamina
Ambur Braid, Queen of the Night
Allan Clayton, Tamino
Peter Coleman-Wright, Papageno
James Creswell, Sarastro
Eleanor Dennis, First Lady
Catherine Young, Second Lady
Rachael Lloyd, Third Lady
Soraya Mafi, Papagena
John Graham-Hall, Monostatos
Darren Jeffery, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)
English National Opera Orchestra
English National Opera Chorus
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