With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become one of opera’s most bankable masterpieces

While most of us were trying to master sourdough and watching Tiger King, Mark-Anthony Turnage put the pandemic to better use and wrote an opera. Five years later it’s coming to Glyndebourne. He tells us how

Floris Visser’s stylish bohemia recalls Brassaï’s Paris, while Puccini’s score is delivered with crispness and elasticity