So it’s not as good. Well, what is? True, you’ll meet occasional Savoyards who claim it’s their personal favourite, just as there are Mozartians (seriously, they walk among us) who maintain that La ...

Still, there’s no harm, every few years, in taking Utopia, Limited off the shelf and seeing what fun we can have with it. Scottish Opera mounted a spirited semi-staging last season; now the unsinkable ...