Have you seen the opera; The Magic Flute,?
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Yes, I have seen it many times and have two recordings of it. It's a good one!
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Yes, several times. Unfortunately it is an opera that suffers from producers who want to update it, make it symbolic, go on about the masonic connexion etc. There's a magical passage in the opera where the hero, Tamino, plays his flute in a forest and the animals come out and listen. In the last production I saw, if you didn't know that they were supposed to be forest animals you wouldn't have known what they were supposed to be as the people representing the animals were dressed up like giant biscuits standing on their edges with stupid smiley faces. I met a friend of mine who, in his middle sixties, had gone to the opera for the first time, and he hadn't any idea what was supposed to be happening then. So, if you want to understand what is going on it makes sense to read through the libretto in translation beforehand (if it isn't being produced in your native language, and there aren't supertitles), so you know what to expect. It is a truly lovely, happy, joyous work, and I always feel elated after a performance, even after the silly production I saw last.
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Yes, several years ago at the Met in NYC. +4
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