The strictures of the past year seem to have left little mark on Glyndebourne, who open the 2021 summer opera season this week with an ambitious programme. The festival’s music director talks improvisation, imagination, and the joy of dressing up
, which, with its huge drop sets and puppets, would have required too many people working too closely together behind the scenes. Three other operas – Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Verdi’s Luisa Miller – will be given more or less as planned, albeit with a reduced and socially distanced orchestra in the pit.
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