Performer: Le Concert d'Astrée

Àlex Ollé directs a rare version of Idoménée in Berlin, in which the staging fares better than the singing. 

How can one focus on the music? Purcell’s music is interspersed with contemporary interludes by Atsushi Sakaï in an overly busy staging.  

A great cast of exciting singers seals a success in Lille, despite a new production which fails to convince.