At the front of the auditorium five year-olds were gawping at the back, 60-year-olds were doing the same." The spirit of Mozart is honoured while every decorous preconception is ditched. Sometimes it bounces, sometimes is jazzes. The singers are accompanied by eight marimbas which send a gurgle through the familiar music: it is as if the whole opera were floating on a stream of water. "Mandasi Dyantyis has brilliantly restored The Magic Flute. “An explosion of joy from the townships of South Africa… noble and beautiful and tender and funny and touching and true… Exuberance invention and glorious ensemble singing… A sense of celebration and resilience, that seems to encapsulate the human spirit at its best.”
From the off, it is touching, sexy and cheeky and leaves you with a rare sense of life-enhancing joy.“
” True Mozartians will love this enchanting version by Isango Portobello… It has all the original’s essential qualities: soaring lyricism, a sense of celebration, generous moral urgency, playful joviality. This is no artificial cultural crossover, but a brilliant, spirit-lifting, wildly inspired and wholly seamless fusion of European and African traditions.“ Read full review ” Highly recommended! If there is anything even slightly resembling an afterlife, it is a good bet that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was sitting somewhere on Cloud Nine on Thursday night, looking down at Navy Pier’s Skyline Stage, and smiling blissfully as he watched his transcendent opera, The Magic Flute, being performed by the Isango Ensemble of Cape Town, South Africa.
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