Royal Opera 'The Minotaur' (Birtwistle)

Right now on Radio 3, Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur. Featuring rape, massacre, harpies and a ball of string, as well as the eponymous beastie (John Tomlinson).

Long long ago, I saw another Birtwistle opera (The Second Mrs Kong, featuring King Kong, Anubis and Vermeer's Girl in a Pearl Earring) at Glyndebourne. And that didn't have any tunes in it either. From the look of the photo gallery (linked from the above page), the Royal Opera House production is as visually impressive as that was: but I cannot get the hang of Birtwistle's music at all.

My icon is of Ariadne, who is probably saying "You want me to sing what?"