Especially when the Australian ABC TV Sydney Opera House 80s version I have on DVD (my favourite version so far) had Papageno wearing a crow head as a hat (one of my favourite corvids).
Papageno is the bird catcher/Everyman and nature lover, usually dressed in a feathered costume, half bird, half man.
And when I was watching the You Tube above of the overture to the opera, I couldn’t help but think of Mike when I saw the ‘Communion’ like headed alien figures dancing around Papageno:-)
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