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Most enjoyable. You guys are so clever. A few favorites: tyke @10, jono @18, raffles’s baroque offering @37, although I wonder whether “almost entirely safe” is kosher when it’s the A you’re dropping (perhaps I’m misreading). I’m giving this one to Paul @13:

Cast feel epic’s ruined using loud CGI (7,7)

Economical, nice surface. Your prizes are clips of the theater at Drottningholm, with its perfectly maintained eighteenth-century special-effects machinery. My wife and I went there by boat from Stockholm last year. What a place. Bergman filmed The Magic Flute here.

https://youtu.be/-FYg7vrlNco?si=9dR_3M89eppDoQ94

https://youtu.be/LEu7EUyYLB4?si=Hrk7WEAY5b6Xm0Yk

I’d like to be more thorough but am limited at the moment to my phone and fat index finger. Thanks so much, all of you.

Congrats Paul and thanks Aristo for a good challenge, and thanks for the mention.
Cheers all

Congratulations Paul
Cheers Aristo

Nice one Paul. Thanks Aristo - baroque and then some; my A delete was a bit of a stretch, indeed.

Nice one Paul - well done! Thanks for the mention and the challenge - interesting clips as usual!

Congrats Paul and thanks aristo.

I've seen the film of the Bergman Magic Flute. Great staging, but a bit odd; it was mainly sung in Swedish, with English surtitles, but the arias sung in German had Swedish surtitles, with the English superimposed, as I remember!

[I saw a rock version called The Magic flute at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, with the ocean as a backdrop. That was a great experience!]

Congratulations paul and thanks to Aristophanes for hosting.

Congrats Paul and thanks aristo.

re Magic Flute:

Queen of the Night makes my hair tingle . What little there is, anyway.

[I think I heard that The Magic Flute is Radio3's opera next Saturday.]

Tack så mycket Aristo! Absolutely fasinating clips. really dows look like a ship nackstage. Always love to hear Swedish. IMHO the most atttactive language to English ears. See you all next week.