Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): Pa-pa-pa | Glyndebourne

[@luisbassooon]

I cant believe what they did.

[@clurgee4923]

First time i’ve seen a magic flute performance that changed its theme and color... very cool!

[@seamusandpat]

The whole production was a hoot, off the wall funny, and very very .... Mozartian!!!

[@theon9575]

But this bit is pure slapstick and to hell with the music.

[@ikerauzmendiesparza6948]

@@theon9575 Someone who wrote a Canon called "Leck mich im Arsch" would approve.

[@mateoh0090]

@Theo N zauberflöte was never supposed to be highbrow

[@metacarple]

@@theon9575 It's superbly sung and played as is always the case at Glyndebourne

[@theon9575]

@@metacarple I agree. Absolutely. ✅ It's why Glynebourne is held in highest regard and why I've been there and watch video of it. But I was not talking about that. I was just saying it it's a pity the voices aren't more 'exposed' so they can be appreciated - not sounding like the music direction didn't even notice that. Mr Esparza's Comment made above reflects this (🤭). It's the classic battle in opera, trying to be 'verismo' dramatically credible & naturalistic (and, here, very funny) in operas that were written with deliberately unnaturalstic vocal lines by the composer specifically to expose a particular singer's voice as Mozart (and Handel) did. The result is a great hoot, a lovely enjoyable production. I just think that there's not much room given to 'stop to smell the (vocal) roses', which the composer wanted to do too.

[@laydarci]

Brilliant version I've ever watched

[@hamapatabrambora5894]

Mozart would have laughed his ass off!

[@clausstimpfig3803]

what a handsome singer

[@tobiasstudtheol]

Björn Bürger

[@luciavitale5903]

It s on TV Now, love from Verona!

[@jeanpierrezutter587]

Beautiful performance !! Very nice voices !!

[@JessieLongley]

Don’t tell me that’s what I think they did.: 0:49

[@Santi__santi]

Maravilloso 🥰🙌🏼 Un gran abrazo desde Bogotá 🙌🏼🥰

[@giovannibilardi8130]

Geniale!

[@Augustus_Imperator]

I found the production a bit too daring and allusive, but it's well sung and played

[@UltraCollagenBooster]

Ummmm, who directed this...lol.

[@Kenny20k]

Twoset clearly brought me here

[@miriambertram2448]

Wow two set 😊I'm 70 and follow them, however started opera 50 years ago

[@ametllet]

Juas!!! XD

[@theon9575]

Very funny. But I miss the focus on the fabulous score and the singing, where Mozart put the comedy and charm.

[@atoms-to-atoms]

lovely ...but Huw should be singing Wagner...such a rich tone!

[@sikanuasamanjit3014]

Funniest version ever! especially when the actors lift the dolls heads up!

[@belleepoque2544]

Very funny

[@mr.bob4630]

Though I love this duet, I had to stop watching before it ended. Crude and vulgar staging of what should be charming and delightful.

[@MsKateC2K]

Mozart would've loved it

[@christopherpericolosi-king4979]

Mozart would have eaten this up, come on now. Satire was HUGE back then. Pun intended.

[@Ephisus]

You've got to be *pretty* prudish to have a problem with this.

[@xinzeng168]

you are right

[@joacimsvensson6330]

How on earth can I show this for my 6 year old daughter ! Sick and perverted!

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

This is what happens when an opera is sung in its original language. Directors add visual gags rather than using the comedy in the libretto

[@hugobodiam4065]

Absolutely frightful ;can't imagine what dear Carl Ebert and Fritz Busch would have thought.

[@theoldar]

Dumb.

[@StellaRatemal-23]

😂😂 das ist doch mal was originelles 😂😂😂 die Zauberflöte mal anders 😂😂😂😂

[@orion8835]

Garbage. How to complete ruin an opera. The Papagena also is singing rather full out. The stage business was vulgar. The production tiresome and lacking in any meaning or magic. Next.

[@metacarple]

It is possibly the best Zauberflöte I have ever seen and heard ( I have seen it at CG, in Paris, in Wiesbaden, in Berlin, In Mainz and in Edinburgh) . Pure joy from beginning to end.

[@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395]

I love this staging!!

[@Omarsh1692]

you can't stick to the same production style. Things have to change to make it interesting.