I am glad Tim Forster-Wright (letter, South China Morning Post, May 12) took the time to write a response to Jason Gagliardi's review (Post, May 6) of the English National Ballet's production of Swan Lake and I thoroughly concur with his opinion that this was a spectacular world-class show.

It's a touch depressing that the Post considered such a short review attesting to the 'horrified gasps of ballet purists' fair and adequate coverage of a glorious event of this style and magnitude.

It was deliberately not staged in a conventional theatre so the effect was always going to be 'different'. Thus, by Mr Gagliardi's standards, anyone who is a dedicated ballet purist should not have even considered attending. What I will attest to is the gasps of delight that I heard all around me at the performance on May 6, but I guess I must have been sitting amongst the impure.