Will Hartmann reviews

Will Hartmann reviews

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Sarah Tynan, Madeleine Shaw, Leah-Marian Jones, Samuel Youn, Iain Paterson, Susan Bickley et al; Hallé/Mark Elder (Hallé)
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

This is Covent Garden’s latest Magic Flute production, filmed in January. It’s a mixed bag, hard to recommend as a total Flute experience over other DVDs already available. For one component part, though, it’s a must-have. Simon Keenlyside’s Papageno offers none of the vaudeville high jinks traditionally associated with the role: he brings to its comedy a Pierrot lunaire-like poetry, precisely achieved down to the smallest detail. This Papageno arouses both delight and poignant emotions, and his singing is wonderfully strong and true in style.
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