The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival | Classical review

Glyndebourne, East Sussex; Royal Albert Hall, London; Tewkesbury AbbeyA "definitive opera production"? The very words chill the heart, freighted with intimations of mortality. However much one likes an approach – Richard Jones's outstanding drab 1950s Hansel and Gretel for WNO or Jonathan Miller's "mafioso" Rigoletto for ENO – none precludes another take. Where, otherwise, would all those wild-eyed, conceptualising young directors find gainful employment?Glyndebourne's version of Stravinsky'...

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