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Melodrama becomes madness: a sensational Magic Flute in Hackney

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“revelatory... tapping into the huge contemporary issues of mental health and abuse of power”
Reviewed at Hackney Empire, London on 21 October 2016
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Hackney Empire and Armel Opera Festival present)
Szeged National Theatre
Gergely Vajda, Conductor
Róbert Alföldi, Director
Ildikó Tihanyi, Set Designer
Marlène Assayag, Queen of the Night
György Hanczár, Tamino
István Kovács, Sarastro
Eva Kovács, Pamina
Szilveszter Szélpál, Papageno
Zoltán Megyesi, Monostatos
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