Could the fascination of Glenn Close's Norma Desmond transcend the frequent bathos of Lloyd Webber? Would they have sorted out the miking which wrecked last year's first choice of semi-ENO musical, the infinitely superior Sweeney Todd? Yes, to varying degrees. But it was just as well that the ENO Orchestra, fresh from its triumph alongside its inseparable chorus at the Olivier Awards, was on hand to make a silk purse…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:30PM on April 4, 2016