Bernard Ingham so wrong on The Rite | Letters

In proudly asserting his cloth-eared philistinism, Bernard Ingham exhibits a very British trait but seems a little confused (Letters, 6 August). The Rite of Spring, which he claims to have “sat through … at Glyndebourne … waiting in vain for a recognisable tune”, is not an opera but a ballet. Not even Sir Bernard could have mistaken Glyndebourne for anywhere else, so perhaps he meant to refer to The Rake’s Progress? In any case, I expect he was asleep.
Michael Pyke
Lichfield, Staf