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Glyndebourne’s Così last year. Rosie Aldridge’s warmly appealing, non-caricatured Marcellina

is another hit. To July 16

Neil Fisher

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Karis Tucker, centre, with members of the Glyndebourne Chorus
GLYNDEBOURNE PRODUCTIONS/RICHARD HUBERT SMITH

Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers returns to the stage

Glyndebourne has sprinkled some magic dust on this opera, because its new production is

theatrically and musically much more gripping than I feared. And that’s despite it being

elongated to epic length by half an hour of rediscovered music, and being sung in French. To

June 24; at the BBC Proms July 24
Richard Morrison

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Evelyn Glennie and Chineke! – a joyous collaboration