Glyndebourne Options

[jael]

Don't know what version you saw but at no point was Daniele de Niese naked. Just a dull selection of M&S underwear. Her singing wasn't poor either, only very ordinary....

The consensus seems to be that she failed to live up to the expectations created by her performance as Cleopatra.

[curzon]

Dont usually disagree with you Sebastian but this was a low point for Glyndebourne. Lazy direction (and his awful lighting), ugly design, poor singers (with the exception of Dominique Visse, Iestyn Davies and Tamara Mumford). However, the evening was saved by the excellent musicians led by brilliant Emmanuele Haim.

Horses for courses, I guess. clearly I would disagree but, since reading critics on opera performances once would hardly believe that they saw the same show, let alone the same performance, one can expect the same disparity in audience reactions!

Sebastian