There could hardly have been a greater contrast between the works chosen to open this year’s Glyndebourne Festival. First, there was a sombre and very rarely performed 20th-century opera written by a controversial Englishwoman, about an impoverished Cornish community, and the next day we were treated to one of the most popular comic operas of all: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, set in a French mansion.
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