Idomeneo | Opera review

Coliseum, LondonA new ailment seems to be affecting UK opera productions at present. One might call it extra-itis. Its principal symptom consists in annoying audiences by filling the stage with lots of people whom the composer never intended should be there. It recently undermined Olivia Fuchs's staging of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande for Opera Holland Park. And it now well nigh ruins Katie Mitchell's production of Mozart's Idomeneo for English National Opera.Mitchell updates the opera to th...

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