... Olivia Fuchs’s witty and glamorous production referenced today’s celebrity culture.

What impressed most‚ though‚ was the detailed characterisations that Fuchs drew from her young singers. She sets up the different characters’ relationships over the music of the overture‚ including what looks like Semele‚ Jupiter and Juno in the configuration of the ‘distracted boyfriend’ social-media meme of a year or so ago.