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...Magic Flute Music dir. Teresa Marrin at Lowell House Dining Hall...
...MAGIC FLUTE AT LOWELL HOUSE...
...recorded passages from the Magic Flute play in the background to the Leverett House performance, the real thing takes place in the Lowell dinning hall. This year's Lowell House Opera production aims, according to the program notes, to uncover "the plethora of possibilities in the opera...without trying to create a singular impression," while simultaneously offering "a dawn to dusk retrospective of Western civilization...
...Mozart's score. Her tempi are brisk throughout (occasionally creating problems for some of the singers), and betray a wager on the comic rather than the mystical. The playing is controlled, and some roughness in the brass is more than forgivable given the splendid delivery of the all-important flute part...
...chic, savvy post-moderns that we are, that still take Mozart seriously? And the answer that stares this disappointed reviewer in the face: not if we waffle about the expansiveness of his music without stopping to think what it is about. The message that is built into the Magic Flute concerns love, human and divine, fraternal and romantic. The element of farce that is undeniably present in the opera does not obliterate or even minimally detract from the power of this message. It is a message, though, that is only implicit, and that needs to be interpreted--which is what...