LA PERICHOLE was quite delightful but it was a broadcast from Geneva, not Aix-en-Provence. Maria Ewing, then Mrs Peter Hall, is quite funny, sort of like Imogene Coca playing Carmen, with excellent French. Her leading man was quite funny and very handsome. DR MBarnum might have abandoned Bollywood for Neil Rosenshein.
One strange moment: when the viceroy's soldiers are hunting down Perichole and Piquillo, why are the Peruvian soldiers all wearing breastplates and tutus? Sometimes these Eurotrash productions irk me.