Review: An Opera North double bill

Bloke pops his head round the door of the gentsโ€™ during the interval. โ€œGoodness,โ€ he chortles. โ€œThereโ€™s as many in here as on the stage.โ€ A lot can be drawn from that observation. The opera-going demographic does lean towards the generation for whom the loo is half time โ€˜mustโ€™ (although there were young heads in …