The Magic Flute; The Bartered Bride – review

Coliseum; Peacock theatre, LondonFour fluttering doves, a flying bird's nest, white columns, hieroglyphs, the blue-haired Queen of the Night: after 25 years and 14 revivals English National Opera's classic staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute launched the new season in reassuring style, continuing to woo audiences with its intelligent charms as it always has. This, we are told – not for the first time but probably for the last – will be positively, definitively, without question, categorical...

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