Simon Boccanegra (English National Opera)
As the curtain rises the audience are blinded by the light of a car's headlights. The car stops, the stage darkens and our eyes gradually accustom to the gloomy, deeply atmospheric design for the Prologue of the English National Opera's new production of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra". The prospects looked good. Unfortunately what followed was utterly terrible. An abysmal example of regietheatre that, for all its imposit…