The Magic Flute
Rehearsal photograph : the tree's initial state
Notes on this work
Rehearsal photograph : the tree parted
Maquette showing design of the floorcloth
The painting of the floorcloth
Sarastro's motif
design sketch, watercolour on paper
55 x 55 cms
2008
Back wall doors, Act I
design sketch, watercolour on paper
26.5 x 55 cms
2008
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Back wall doors, Act II
design sketch, watercolour on paper
26.5 x 55 cms
2008
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Mozart's The Magic Flute
Opera Holland Park, London, June 2008
Directed by Simon Callow
Conducted Jane Glover
Working with Billie Achilleos as his assistant Tom Phillips designed costumes, props and the set which included a tree that would part into two when the Queen of the Night made her entrance.