The Indian Queen, Colliseum **

This is the latest self indulgent vanity project from the director Peter Sellars who has been given his dream task. An unfinished opera which can be warped heavily to transport it into the surreal, scary world of Peter Sellar's head and then regurgitated out to be served to audiences eager to interpret it as profound and important. For me, this production is a step too far for the delusional director. The music and narrative does not fit together and the dramatic text being read in between the wonderful music seems overdone. This did not matter so much but when the music stopped for some wildlife noises to occur in a very disjointed way, it started to annoy me. This production seems to have done as much as possible in order to alienate any newcomers to opera. Whilst the Mastersingers was beautiful despite it's  questionable politics, The Indian Queen is a failure in my eyes despite containing the most wonderful music.