Culture: Reviews : Closer to the Heart ; Welsh National Opera Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Post › June 23, 2005

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Welsh National Opera's new production of The Magic Flute takes us the closest to the heart of this problematic Mozart masterpiece that I have ever known.

The balance between pantomime wizardry and profound philosophic symbolism is brilliantly achieved in Dominic Cooke's direction, applying an understated lightness of touch to the many incidents in this bizarre tale, with the result that everything emerges with greater clarity than one could ever hope to expect.

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Culture: Reviews : Closer to the Heart ; Welsh National Opera Birmingham Hippodrome

And the key to all this insight lies in a brilliant recourse to the image...

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