Marco Zambelli

The festival’s favoured production style is at the gag-rich, pantomime end of the spectrum

Smart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplier

The composer Christian Wolff, of the New York School, was central to a memorable night in Louth

The looseness of the ensemble and problems with co-ordination proved largely insurmountable

A century on, Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ still has the power to shock and awe, and musicians are still finding ways to transform it