A Magic Flute – review

Barbican, LondonThe indefinite article in the title is significant: this is Peter Brook's very personal take on Mozart's supreme, unclassifiable work, rather than a definitive staging of Die Zauberflöte as seen in opera houses around the world. It's the third, and probably the last, in the line of operatic adaptations that Brook and his collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne have produced for his company at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, following their versions of Carmen and Pelléa...

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