OPERA star Lesley Garrett and the Welsh National Opera (WNO) are set to cast their spell in a season of magical music.

The trio of spellbinding productions comes to the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, from March 25 to 28.

The production will highlight the natural affinity between music and magic with revivals of Hansel and Gretel and The Magic Flute alongside a new production Chorus!

Chorus! will include opera classics such as the Humming Chorus from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Va Pensiero from Verdi’s Nabucco alongside the Epigraph from Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Alabama Song from Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

Two pieces from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance will also feature A Policeman’s Lot and With Cat-like Tread.

Mozart’s much-loved The Magic Flute returns to WNO in this Magritte-inspired production – originally directed by Dominic Cooke – which features an angry lobster, a newspaper-reading lion and a fish that is transformed into a bicycle.

In Southampton, The Magic Flute will feature Allan Clayton singing the role of Tamino, with Sophie Bevan and Anita Watson sharing the role of Pamina. South African-born baritone Jacques Imbrailo will sing the role of Papageno, and Samantha Hay will sing the Queen of the Night.

For more information go to wno.org.uk/spellbound.