28 JULY 1961, Page 16

But it is a highly stimulating and worthwhile game, and

on the whole Glyndebourne play it very well. Kerstin Meyer is superb as Carolina, Elisabeth Soderstrom makes a moving and poetic Elizabeth and Thomas Hemsley (the doctor) a nicely fussy, bewildered old boy; and Lila de Nobili's setting for the terrace and parlour of the `Schwarzer Adler,' excellently lit by Anthony Besch, is both a brilliantly practical piece of stage design and carpentry and a marvel- lous period piece.