There are more good things to say about Glyndebourne's hiphop version of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte that I have space available.

As a passionate opera lover and Mozart fan, I was a little apprehensive about the plan to mix contemporary music with some of the most sublime classical music ever written.

But I need not have worried. I loved this West End-style production from the start. It was a hugely entertaining evening and I wish I could have bought a DVD recording of it as I left.

This Mozart/Da Ponte story is transplanted from late-18th-Century Naples to a modern-day, graffiti-covered, inner-city slum.

Musical directors Jonathan Gill and Charlie Parker (aka hip hop producer The Baptist) seamlessly blended hip hop, DJing and breakdancing with Mozart's original score and the composer's humanity and compassion came flooding through.

Stephen Plaice's witty and sexually explicit English libretto engaged the audience (a sea of young faces) throughout and there was stylish dancing from a 25-strong youth crew from Brighton and Hove schools.

Brighton-based high mezzo Jessica Walker was fabulous as Gigi, the girl who held out the longest, and when she sang Whisper The Wind it was both breathtakingly beautiful and heartbreakingly sad.

And Natasha Seale's Despina was wonderfully animated and feisty - a musical theatre star in the making.

The whole show was visually stunning and Glyndebourne must bring it back to Britain later in the year.