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Reviews: Glyndebourne Touring Opera - Idomeneo: Mozart gets a makeover
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Glyndebourne Touring Opera - Idomeneo ****
FESTIVAL THEATRE, EDINBURGH
PETER Sellars's production of Mozart's early masterpiece Idomeneo
was panned when first introduced to Glyndebourne audiences earlier
this year. The Iraqi war setting, coupled with an impassioned take on
the classical tale was too much to swallow at the time, despite a
cast that was star-studded, right down to the man at the musical
helm, Sir Simon Rattle.
Sellars's shortened reworking (a...
