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Word: sarastro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage," he says. "A work like The Magic Flute should lead everyone to the depth of his own temperament, and so I prefer to have the public imagine the river." There is no river to imagine in Ustinov's Magic Flute, but there is much else. Sarastro's temple of wisdom is suggested by four golden columns and a clear egg-yolk backdrop rather than the usual bombastic temple architecture. The other sets consist primarily of a variety of shrublike trees positioned differently for each scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Magic and the Globolinks | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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