"Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is long, running for about three hours, and possesses a famously convoluted plot, laden with esoteric philosophical concepts. It's very much a grown-up affair, but you wouldn't know it from Protein's simplified 75-minute dance-theatre adaptation, which is faithful to the original (well, mostly), highly entertaining and suitable for all ages. Certainly, the audience at the performance of Protein's The Magic Flute I attended at a packed The Place, an even mix of children and adults, appeared rapt throughout"
"Silvestrini keeps the drift of the opera's original concept: a quest for wisdom and truth, where Prince Tamino is charged by the Queen of the Night with finding her daughter Pamina, taken by the powerful Sarastro. Donna Lennard as Queen of the Night and Jacob Lang as Tamino in The Magic Flute Jane Hobson It goes without saying that Tamino and Pamina fall in love practically at first sight."
Protein condenses Mozart's three-hour The Magic Flute into a 75-minute dance-theatre piece that preserves the opera's quest-for-wisdom narrative. Prince Tamino is tasked by the Queen of the Night to find Pamina, who has been taken by Sarastro. Tamino and Pamina fall in love quickly, while Papageno provides comic, down-to-earth counterpoint and later finds Papagena. The production stages encounters with Three Ladies, wild animals, three balloon-headed ghosts and a two-person pantomime monster. Luca Silvestrini's direction blends text, music and original choreography with a minimal, versatile cast. Audiences of children and adults responded raptly and engaged with participation moments.
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