Pursuits
Glyndebourne’s Loud Thrills, ENO’s Gray Midsummer: Review
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With more than 200 performers in front of a 1,200-seat auditorium, Glyndebourne’s “Die Meistersinger” has the highest stage-audience ratio in the company’s history. It makes for an eardrum-rattling show.
The intimate countryside U.K. opera house has picked Wagner’s most densely populated piece for its second-ever production of a work by the composer. (The first was “Tristan und Isolde” in 2003).