A  schoolboy has a scary dream, gets attacked by a snake, is sent on a mystic mission to defeat evil and rescue a kidnapped girl, and in a startling Patty Hearst moment ends up joining the smug Masonic outfit behind the kidnapping, and marrying the girl in a ceremony organised by them …  Wherever you slice Mozart’s enigmatic Magic Flute, it’s full of strange moments that seem to go against everything we know about the man, not least his obvious natural feminism. In the Flute, women, the realm of the moon and “unreason”, are utterly subjugated to the male world, and the piece is full of snide little homilies about feminine wiles.It’s full of other things too, of course: notably the idea that through truthfulness and fellowship, love and true e