Dim Sum and Opera

Dim Sum for lunch, the joys of being not far from Manchester.
and Zoroastre for the evening. In the summer we saw inside the Baroque theatre in Česky Krumlov, to see inside is the most you can do but that includes going beneath the stage. Untouched for 200 years and preserved in perfection, a memorable encounter. This production is from Drottingholm the other baroque theatre not quite as original but it is still a working theatre.
The gestures of Amir Hosseinpour's dance language is reigned in and perfectly blended into baroque dance forms, in touch with the genies of this theatre, fitted onto the small performing space and necessary simplicity of lighting.
I loved the formality of this; very different from the rumbustiousness of the opéra-ballet.
This is the second tragédie en musique by Rameau I have seen on DVD, the other being  Les Boréades which must be far outside the accepted form. A mission now to find others.