English National Opera’s Music Director Mark Wigglesworth warns that the organisation’s plan to slash wages and jobs from its chorus would damage it irreparably.
It is probably stating the obvious to say that Mozart’s The Magic Flute, currently being performed by English National Opera, is about the magical power of music. The title is rather a giveaway. Volumes of musical analysis, psychological tracts and neurological experiments have tried to explain this power, but in the end it remains a mystery. Fortunately. Music can soothe and excite, make public the deeply private, or inspire and unite the heart and mind within a single second. Despite being completely unintelligible, it is a language that we all can understand.
Yet there are millions of people who think that a Mozart opera is not for them. As disappointing as this is for those of us involved, we should... Keep reading on The Guardian
It is probably stating the obvious to say that Mozart’s The Magic Flute, currently being performed by English National Opera, is about the magical power of music. The title is rather a giveaway. Volumes of musical analysis, psychological tracts and neurological experiments have tried to explain this power, but in the end it remains a mystery. Fortunately. Music can soothe and excite, make public the deeply private, or inspire and unite the heart and mind within a single second. Despite being completely unintelligible, it is a language that we all can understand.
Yet there are millions of people who think that a Mozart opera is not for them. As disappointing as this is for those of us involved, we should... Keep reading on The Guardian