Die Zauberflöte – review

Royal Opera House, LondonThere are no particular weaknesses in this latest Covent Garden revival of David McVicar's dependable darkness-into-light Die Zauberflöte, first seen in 2003. But there is also only one truly stand-out presence: the 83-year-old Sir Colin Davis in the pit, whose serenely trustworthy account plots an unerring path through the work's many notorious traps, contradictions and changes of mood.Not everyone will like Davis's conducting, which is not merely laid-back but a thr...

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