Midlands Classical Music Making

                               THE BARBER OF SEVILLE                              Longborough Festival Opera (July13)   One of the many heartening elements of this joyous production is the fact that the cast was so youthful, many of them making their Longborough debuts. The future looks set fair. This was the final performance in a run which had begun early in June, insterspersed with Pelleas et Melisande , but there was no sense of end-of-term undisciplined high jinks. No, this was a grippingly tight presentation from a superbly well-drilled company, unfolding with unstoppable momentum under the fluent conducting of the batonless Elaine Kelly. Underlying everything was the deft playing of th...