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London Phiharmonic Orchestra's Glyndebourne 50th Anniversary Season Open for Business, Sans Sir George Christie and Fat Shaming Scandal

The Glyndebourne Festival is underway, a 50th anniversary season already marked by the sad death of its previous owner-chairman Sir George Christie, a scandal around critics' comments on a female singer's (by no means unusual) body shape, and a production of Der Rosenkavalier that opens on its Marschallin naked in the shower. And it only opened less a week ago!