Eric Page

A mixed bag, some stunning set pieces then some irritating distractions, great voices, and a fabulously wired chorus who are kept oddly static. Like the Storm in this production, it washed over me, was enjoyable and nice to hear but didn’t leave me beached, panting at the over whelming thrill of the

Full of flirtatious passion and with a real sense of revelation and surprise designer Tom Pye’s evocative and surreal British travelling circus interpretation of a Coney Island fairground was a feast for the eyes it also allowed this most silly of operas to detach itself from reality enough to relax