Charles Meunier

It's Theo's birthday today and all he wants is to talk to his ex, Lucile. All she wants is to talk to him. In a serendipitous turn of events, they call each other at the same time and end up leaving each other a voicemail, saying more in one message than they would have ever said in one conversation.

Berlioz’s whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare’s great comedy Much Ado About Nothing graces the stage of Glyndebourne in Laurent Pelly’s astute 2016 production. Italian maestro Antonello Manacorda leads the London Philharmonic in Berlioz’s brilliant score.