OPERA

Peter Hall Quits Glyndebourne: An artistic tiff over Peter Sellars’ staging of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at the Glyndebourne Festival has resulted in Sir Peter Hall resigning last weekend as artistic director. Hall, 59, said he had not been consulted about Sellars’ radical production--which has no dialogue and is staged on a Los Angeles freeway. In his resignation letter, Hall said his quarrel was not with Sellars, but with Glyndebourne “which now attaches little importance to my artistic opinion.” Hall had been artistic director of the festival, one of the world’s most prestigious opera organizations, since 1984 and associated with it for 20 years.