The best of the 10 segments is, perhaps predictably, the rare one without lofty pretensions.

I am not sure that any indispensable statement about opera has been made here, and purists will no doubt recoil by the irreverence of some of the images. But the film is fun almost as a satire of itself.

'...a sporadically interesting project, but what it shows clearly in 2020 is that diversity is something that cannot be ignored. If all films are directed by elderly white men, then self-indulgence and juvenilia result...'

The most successful episode, though, is Julien Temple's cheerfully vulgar interpretation of 'La donna è mobile' from Verdi's Rigoletto.