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Article: Bad hair day for Agamemnon and Co. (opera review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- May 24, 2002
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Byline: DAVID GILLARD
Iphigenie En Aulide [Iphigenia In Aulis]
(Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
Verdict: Dire designs on Gluck
THE first new production of the annual Sussex season is a pretentious exercise in producer-chic that sets Gluck's Trojan War drama somewhere between Posh and Becks's recent World Cup bash and an 18thcentury Versailles pageant.
Well, if you fancy an Armani Achilles and a Versace Agamemnon, you'll probably like Bettina J.
Walter's designer suits and little black dresses, though what these city slickers are doing in ancient Greece is anybody's guess. And don't ask me why they change into French ...