Rossini would have loved the anarchic vigour of Glyndebourne’s The Barber Of Seville at its one night Proms appearance

Glyndebourne’s magnificent, entertaining Rossini at the Proms

A Barber with bite as Glyndebourne goes to The Proms

Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s annual visit to the BBC Proms is always an object lesson in semi-staging

Barber with bite as Glyndebourne goes to The Proms

All concerned brought off the conception superbly

Surprisingly, this was the first complete Proms performance of Rossini’s indestructible version of Beaumarchais’s comedy