Hansel und Gretel, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Skilfully revived by James Bonas, Laurent Pelly's 2008 production of Humperdinck's opera launches Glyndebourne's autumn tour. Visually it remains a distinctly mixed experience, in which the magic of the original fairytale is largely ditched: the angels in the dream pantomime sequence are just everyday kids, dressed in white and eating hamburgers; they return, grotesquely fattened u…