ROH’s The Magic Flute review – as fresh as the day it was first performed

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Not many people ask that question. The science fiction author of the novel that inspired the Blade Runner film franchise, Philip K. Dick, did. He was referencing Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He thought the composer’s deathbed swansong so fantastical it could inspire even today’s robotic farming community.

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