Festival: Glyndebourne

Thanks to a vibrant clutch of performances and abetted by designer Vicki Mortimer‘s detailed, exotic sets, director Sir David McVicar tells it straight.

Pelly’s low-level intervention leaves the audience marooned at the end of his new production of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s operatic divertissement. 

Michael Grandage’s production shows no signs of age, with fine central performances from Thomas Mole, Allan Clayton and Sam Carl, and fine playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.