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.
This means that the entire drama has to be carried on the ample shoulders of the grown-up Senta, Orla Boylan, whose display of passion is so convincing that her odd wobble of pitch only adds to our conviction that she's determined to stand by and save her man.