“Opera Reviews § The Magic Flute”, Gwern2019-02-02 (literary criticism, opera, personal; similar)⁠:

A compilation of opera reviews since 2019.

Rebroadcast of abridged 2006_18ya performance (which demonstrates how much Met HD broadcasts have improved technically over the past decade). Gorgeous nonsense. With excellent music by Mozart, lyrics unusually in English, and eccentrically colorful costumes/sets, but mostly unconvincing characters (not helped by abridgement), and a plot stuffed full of Masonic symbols but lacking any sense.

• Carmen
• Akhnaten
• Porgy and Bess
• The Ring Cycle
  • Die Walküre
  • Rheingold/Siegfried/Götterdämmerung
• Agrippina
• Manon
• Madama Butterfly
• Turandot
• Dialogues Des Carmélites
• The Magic Flute
• Wozzeck

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