By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News
Tonight is an “encore performance” of the Metropolitan Opera’s HD telecast of Mozart’s The Magic Flute to be shown at 6:30 p.m. (PST) in a handful of theaters throughout Southern California. The title is correct; the 1 1/2-hour long program is sung in English using a sparkling production designed by Julie Taymor (creator of The Lion King musical).
Tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. is Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, another wonderful production that, among other things, includes Philip Landridge as the Witch in one of his final appearances (he died a couple of months after this production first aired in December 2009).
Details, including lists of the theaters showing each program (not all theaters are showing both), are HERE. They’re both worth seeing.
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(c) Copyright 2011, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved. Portions may be quoted with attribution.
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