Komische Oper Berlin's Marriage of Figaro - Jan Windszus Photography The Edinburgh International Festival is taking opera seriously this summer, and among its imports will be this riveting, moving ...

But the EIF agreed to host it before its Berlin premiere, and while they must have had their suspicions about how “radical” it was, I doubt they were prepared for just what a mess it turned out to be.

It's actually a rare pleasure to find oneself on the Spanish country estate of Aguasfrescas in the late 18th century, where the two main pairs – Count and Countess Almaviva, the Count's valet Figaro ...