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Co-Opera's
Magic Flute is set in a restaurant in the 1960's. Sarastro
is a Maitre D'Hôtel, Monostatos is the dirty, greasy
chef, Papageno supplies birds to the kitchen, The Three Ladies
are waitresses, whilst The Sprites are appropriately supernatural.
The Three Ladies are dressed up in female soft rock costumes
and occasionally break irresistibly into body swaying from
another genre entirely.
It's fleeting
and all the funnier for its brevity.
In Tessa
Bremner's direction the accent is on light-heartedness and
fun...
by-words for Co-Opera's treatment of comic operas.
Mozart's
music, glorious and sacred, is all there, offered in its original
beauty by some of the brightest, strongest, sweetest voices
in Australia today and accompanied by a wonderfully
talented string ensemble.
...
definitely innovative and imaginative
... tons of youthful exuberance and mature sophistication
… there is plenty of earthy humour, meticulous choreography,
... and lots of delightful singing.
Dennis Mitchell, Geelong Advertiser
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