Calixto Bieito http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1277887,00.html bothers me, making perfectly good operas into epics of shock and disgust, but then most perfectly good operas are epics of shock and disgust, just we have lost it after 300 yrs.

(talking to pat today, i said that the problem with bloom was that he failed to realise that webster hit all of my spilane buttons)