The last week has involved complicated logistics as we have been simultaneously rehearsing Haydn as well as Gluck's Le cinesi and Mozart's Apollo and Hyacinth, reviving our 2008 double-bill production for our debut appearance at the Cheltenham Festival. The charming Pittville Pump Room was the venue, and the extremely efficient management and helpful Festival student volunteers enabled us to get-in our sets and lights and do a 3 hour rehearsal (with the Bampton Classical Players) between the end of the lunchtime recital at 1pm and our performance at 6.30. The photograph of the end of the overture of Le cinesi shows Serena Kay as Tangia (she's also performing Nerina in Le pescatrici), Martene Grimson as Sivene, and Lina Markeby as Lisinga (also Eurilda in Pescatrici). Anthony Hall, also hard at work as co-builder of the Haydn set, has become the company's photographer and captured this somnolent moment during last night's performance, under the atmospheric lighting of Ian Chandler.