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...Production, artProduction.Talent, Olivia Marrie and Luanda Yasmin. Processing, LabyrinthPhotographic. Retouch, Jon Hempstead....
...So it doesn’t matter that Annabel Arden’s 2016 production for Glyndebourne, now in the hands of revival director Sinéad O’Neill, preoccupies itself chiefly with the business of looking good: on that count...
...By contrast, director Claus Guth, in his fourth production for the Opéra National de Paris, undermines the oratorio’s humanist message....
...Ian Rickson’s virtually all-star production is the best I have seen on stage....
...The impetus then fizzled out and production was briefly halted. A client approached Mr Jacobs on an aeroplane and demanded more charms to dangle from her bracelet....
...The quasi-modern production, directed by Guy Joosten and designed by Johannes Leiacker, remains fussy, clumsy and cluttered....
...Marlis Petersen initially portrays Lulu, the eternal femme fatale, as an exquisite coquette, pert rather than mysterious, more kitten than tigress....
...Audrey Bonnet’s crisp, sexy maid is the perfect complement, a coquette without tumbling into caricature, a voice of velvet pouring poison on rivals....
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