The second time I’ve seen this production and it’s still marvellous. Everything about it is wonderful – including the framing and staging, which undermines what might otherwise jar: that women = superstition and falsehood and men = rationality and truth.

• Tamino – Trystan Llyr-Griffiths
• Papageno – Emyr Wyn Jones
• Queen of the Night – Nazan Fikret
• Pamina – Soraya Mafi