» "It is staggeringly self-indulgent, like sitting through the most noodly Carlos Santana guitar solo, only for Chris Rea to appear and go through it all again, with Mark Knopfler joining in for good measure"
Laura Barton on opera in today’s Guardian. I wanted to hate this — middle-class Londoner in inverse snobbery and iconoclasm shockah — but it’s actually rather charming.
