The Enchanted Island (Metropolitan Opera)
I've been looking forward to "The Enchanted Island" for ages. Fans may mock Peter Gelb for suggesting modern audiences aren't particularly responsive to four hour Baroque epics, but by and large I think he's at least partly right (though some productions more than make it work). The idea behind this pastiche then was to repackage phenomenal Baroque tunes into a piece for modern audiences.An interesting idea whic…