Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent's sometimes imaginative, sometimes annoying new production for the English National Opera is set nowhere in particular: the whole of Act I takes place in the she's-read-too-many-storybooks mind of Senta as a young girl.
In yet another time-warp, the Act III party scene subjects Senta (who has become a sort of she-wolf by her embrace of the Dutchman's satanic curse) to gratuitous gang rape by the chorus, costumed as characters in some weird video game.