Mozart at Glyndebourne

Posted by: graham55 on 08 July 2005

I went to the Glyndebourne production of The Magic Flute on Wednesday. Sir Charles Mackerras was due to conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, but was unable to do so after falling and injuring his right hand a few days previously (get well soon, Sir Chuck!).

Superb production and performance (those "period" woodwind and brass do sound so different), taking it back to its roots in pantomime, and a stand out Papageno from Christopher Maltman.

So, I went to bed enchanted, a very happy boy indeed. Then I wake up to "reality" the following morning, in the form of those f*cking bombers in London. Perhaps the world just isn't the enlightened place that it ought to be after all.

Graham

Posted on: 09 July 2005 by Tam

Glad you enjoyed the event, didn't realise it was the OAE playing (I heard Mackerras conduct them in a concert last year of mozart and beethoven and they were absolutely stunning then).

Hope Sir Charles gets well soon - I'm due to see him in Edinburgh in a couple of months time!

regards,

Tam

Posted on: 09 July 2005 by u5227470736789439

Dear Friends,
The world throws up the siblime next the tragic with an immediacy never possible before the electronic media brought the disaster before us within minutes rather than weeks.

On a bad day it is enough to make a soul wonder what ever the world has come to, but I suspect that it was ever thus in reality. What seems to have changed is the devastation possible nowadays and the motivation of the people who perpetratate these tragic actions. Now that might be a reason to wonder at the ways of the world nowadays.

Fredrik