"Truth be told, Taymor’s staging achieves its finest form in the Met’s digest version, because it doesn’t really have enough ideas to sustain Mozart’s full-length work."
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"Chuckles and puppets make for a fun night with the kids, but singing like Lewek’s is what the magic of opera is all about."
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"The performance boasted a winning cast and glowing playing from the orchestra, led with elegance and insight by Jane Glover. I’ve long been in the minority in finding Taymor’s stylized, puppet-filled staging overly busy — too inventive for its own good. But the audience applauded each scenic touch and stage trick, including some children near me, though there seemed not that many of them in attendance overall."
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"This was an assured performance, with an easy quality to it, seamless with the singers and essential to the pleasures, and pure entertainments, of this seasonal delight."
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"...the Julie Taymor production, though getting a bit dated, offers plenty of spectacle and goofiness to keep fidgety kids engaged."
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