"Performing to so many people on themostexcitingday in sport for Great Britain will be one of the highlights of the last decade for us, " said Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon.
While the stage features children twirling in vibrantly coloured skirts and adolescent boys performing gallant folk dances in traditional boots and bombachas (loose-fitting gaucho-style trousers), themostexciting spectacle of theday is the sortija.
One of themostexciting things that a well-produced play can do is serve as a time machine, giving modern-day audiences a privileged glimpse of a corner of the lost world of the past.