Respectable in their individual performances, the dancers needed more coherence in the staging, which was uncredited.
This is not to overlook Thomas Caruso's staging, which offers a couple of knockdown, dragout brawls.
Neither extreme was served by the staging, which depicted the action at a cinematic remove.
Simple props were woven into the bare-bones staging, which the three cast members directed themselves.
This is never a problem in Mr. Stein's staging, which reduces the opera to essentials.
Fortunately, the Metropolitan Opera has imported the colorful staging, which is repeated on Monday and Saturday.
Such is the impact of Peter Sellars's already legendary staging, which was first seen in 2010, in Salzburg and Berlin.
And the spare, limpid staging, which throws the focus on the actors, is the legacy of Grotowski.
Antonio Pappano conducts Keith Warner's controversial staging, which finally seemed to take off towards the end of part three.
And Bafta-winning director John Stephenson will helm the staging, which promises "a spectacular set and special visual effects".
This has a lot to do with the traverse staging which uses the entire length of the Bridewell theatre.
