Word: papageno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left to the operagoer's imagination. The three little boys who act as Tamino's guardian angels arrived and departed in a dirigible. Occasionally, Ustinov indulged in his love of sight gags, and not always to good effect; there were some murmurs from the audience when Papageno made his first entrance from the prompter's box. But Heinz Joachim in Die Welt summed up the critics' response: "At long last the Hamburg State Opera has cleaned out both the antiquated conceptions and modern profundity that block the view of Mozart's Magic Flute...
...cast, looking vaguely lost in Chagall's vast fantascapes, nonetheless performed elegantly. Mozart Specialist Josef Krips conducted manfully against the visual competition, and Baritone Hermann Prey's comical Papageno was as close to a show stealer as the conditions would permit. Chagall's whimsical spectacular notwithstanding, there was too much art and not enough Mozart...