The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo
- By:
- Mozart, adapted by Mark Dornford-May, who also directs
- Composer:
- words and music by Mandisi Dyantyis, Mbali Kgosidintsi, Pauline Malefane and Nolufefe Mtshabe
- Management:
- Arthur Leone PR
- Lighting:
- Mannie Manim
- Choreography:
- Lungelo Ngamlana
Production information can change over the run of the show.
The Magic Flute is the most elusive and mysterious of Mozart's operas, but at the Young Vic it's clear from the opening notes of the overture that the exciting Anglo-South African Isango/Portobello company has made the work triumphantly its own. The famous fortissimo chords that open the opera don't come from a conventional orchestra but from a band of marimbas, spiritedly led by dreadlocked conductor Mandisi Dyantyis. As the familiar music continues in its unfamiliar guise, the musicians' joy in their playing is infectious. Soon everyone in the Young Vic, on and off stage, is grinning...
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