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Brave the Castle · Sep 7, 2025

The Magic Flute

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Shuang Zou, directing Mozart's opera in the Adelaide Festival this year, has turned it into an absurd mess, like a toddler gluing a jigsaw puzzle together with play dough.

Photo by Ani Adigyozalyan on Unsplash. Re-sized using Canva.

To quote Kermit the Frog: “You can’t beat the classics, you can only destroy them.”

Mozart’s The Magic Flute is fantasy and that makes the opera very difficult to mess up. I have seen it performed several times since I was young, since it’s my Dad’s favourite opera, and I’ve seen it performed in…

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