Thank you for this great write-up. I felt EXACTLY as you did about Gillen's Mozart. I went in prepared to be unimpressed, I will admit, due to my massive teenage crush on Tom Hulce which has overshadowed anyone else in the role ever since, but then I was so sad about the ETERNAL SHOUTINESS of this performance.

Msamati was so good, and as you point out Crome was so good, and the production overall was intense and had such impressive stagecraft -- I really loved it -- but there was a hole at the center.