Tim Horwood writes:

>The English National Opera, that perform mostly in English, did Fennimore
>and Gerda a few years back.  It was rather a surreal production with
>someone dying in a piano and paint being thrown against a white backdrop.
>This rather distracted from the music.

I saw that production and agree completely that the production distracted
greatly from Delius's wonderful music.  Tim, do you remember the little
girls moving all those terra cotta pots? I never had the faintest notion
what that was all about, but I do recall lots of little girls and lots of
pots being moved into curving lines and straight lines, having dried
flowers put in then taken out - it was truly weird.

Jane Erb