"The Magic Flute" by Mozart - The Peacock Theatre, London/2007
Director: Mathew White - Lighting: David Howe
SET AND COSTUMES DESIGNED BY CHARLIE CRIDLAN
(Photograph by Nick Gurney)

"That night in Max's bedroom a forest grew" from "Where the Wild Things Are"� by Maurice Sendak, - our starting point for the production which was set in 1880's inspired by the paintings of Edgas Degas and Walter Sickert. The action opens in the bedroom of a girl, on the brink of womanhood. Panelled screens slide apart breaking into the magical world of Sarastro and the Queen of the Night, taking Pamina and Tamino on a journey of discovery . In this picture, the Three Ladies present Tamino with the magic flute, flown in, inside a magical gilded cage.

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