Verdi's opera performed at the celebrated Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Kostas Paskalis, James Morris, Josephine Barstow, Rae Woodland, Keith Erwen and Ian Caley are among the principal performers. With the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.
After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the door of a secluded villa after their dune buggy runs out of gas.