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This Opera North production of Ruddigore is really delightful. Projecting witty silent-film footage over the overture to fill in the back story, director Jo Davies has updated the action to the 1920s.

An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...

'It's like Marmite. You either love it or you hate it." I am told this at least three times during the couple of days I spend with ­Opera North at Leeds Grand theatre, where they are rehearsing ...

It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here It’s now most of a theatre-going lifetime since Gilbert ...

There are several reasons, starting with the title (originally “Ruddygore”, until Victorian sensibilities objected), why Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...

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After the instant – and durable – triumph of The Mikado in 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan knew that whatever they produced next was likely to be regarded as an anti-climax. And so it proved. Gilbert ...

Davies’s shrewdest move is to shift Gilbert’s creaky satire on the excesses of Victorian melodrama forward to the 1920s, a period now more closely associated with the genre – think silent cinema, big ...