Glyndebourne’s Le nozze di Figaro is brilliant – with one unforgivable flaw ...Middle East

Count Almaviva, who preys on servant girls while his wife mourns her lost happiness, wants to deflower his wife’s maid, Susanna. Her fiancé, the Count’s valet Figaro, is out to stop him, while the lovesick adolescent page Cherubino is always in everybody’s way.

Countess Almaviva (Louise Alder) and Cherubino (Adèle Charvet) (Photo: Glyndebourne/Richard Hubert Smith)

The revolving stage reveals a palace full of doors, often with snoopers behind them, the servants hurrying to giggle over their superiors’ conflicts.

At the centre, however, is the Count’s abusive relationship with the Countess – and two of British opera’s brightest young stars, Huw Montague Rendall and Louise Alder, make it all too real. Alder is heartrendingly poised and tender, and an especially poignant touch is the presence of a small daughter. Montague Rendall incarnates an entitled, dangerously sexy aristocrat.

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Why only four stars? The conductor Riccardo Minasi, so I’m told, has meticulously researched his interpretation, in which he plays quite extremely with the tempo, speeding up and slowing down mid-number. Evidence apparently exists that Mozart used to pull the tempi around, too.

Besides, it sometimes leaves vocal ensembles hanging by a thread. It’s to the cast’s great credit that nothing fell apart. A gorgeously performed, sparklingly intelligent staging – I look forward to a revival conducted by someone else.

To August 21, glyndebourne.com

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