Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review

Royal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last week had more spectacle than a Charlton Heston retrospective, more geography and climatics than a Met Office weather map. Hannibal made an appearance, as did the Alps, though not, inconsiderately, at the same time. The Simón Bolívars and Gustavo Dud...

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