Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero

Jonathan Kent was one of the country's top theatre directors before chalking up a series of successes in opera. Tom Service talks to him ahead of taking on Don GiovanniJust above where director Jonathan Kent is sitting in the artists' café at Glyndebourne, there's a large photo of two actors in gigantic rabbit costumes frolicking in a surreal prelapsarian idyll. This isn't Glyndebourne's attempt to destress singers on their lunch break, but a photo from Kent's own production of Purcell's The Fa...

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