Title: Falls far short of professional
Product review: Wish we could be more encouraging about this review. The Magic Flute is an opera that lends itself well to varied interpretation and a new one holds promise, but beware here.The amateur singing in this performance should have ruled out its public release.. The singing ranges from actually shockingly bad (from the cute three boys) to better (from Monastatos).The orchestra is fine, but not memorable by international opera standards. The career promise of the young Thai conductor cannot be furthered by either by the high-school level the singing or the staging. The set consisted throughout of what appeared to be three or so large pieces of Lego in primary colors.Of two dozen dvds of this opera we purchased, this is the only one we ever sent back. Be warned -subtitles are lacking except when Papagano speaks in Thai.
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