How we made: Ivan Fischer and Tom Randle on ENO's The Magic Flute

'The snake started to slowly wrap itself around my neck. I managed to squeak: "Help!"'Ivan Fischer, conductorWhen English National Opera asked me to conduct Mozart's Magic Flute in 1988, I said I'd do it with [director] Nick Hytner but nobody else. I'd been involved in many productions of the opera before, and I told Nick and designer Bob Crowley at our first meeting that I always wished the directors and designers wouldn't run out of ideas early. There's usually great imagination in the early s...

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