Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: YECH!!!

First off, it's not the music making or singing that make this such a horrible evening at the opera. It's this psycho, pseudo-Eurotrash production that puts the beloved classic in some weird time and place - we have fish-headed waiters instead of a dream pantomime, a hausenfrau witch and a lot of other weird stuff. True, it's not as godawful as the ENO production of a few years back (that takes place in WWI England, the sandman is a coke-snorting wastrel and the mother and witch are portrayed by the same singer) but I wonder how awful opera productions have to get before we all scream, Enough!If you get this one, turn off the picture and just listen to the music. Or better yet, get the earlier Met O'Hearn Production which has thankfully been reissued by DGG.