Hip-hop and opera are set to collide. Which force will prevail, asks Richard Morrison

[Times Online, 10 March 2006]

What on earth is that bizarre thudding coming from the big rehearsal room at Glyndebourne? As you approach, it sounds rather like the aural warfare you might encounter in the Morrison household on a Saturday morning, with me pumping out Mozart through the living-room speakers, while the latest rap sensation blasts from the bedrooms of my offspring.