Tom Service on the great opera scam

'Beware the tenor with a new Rolex'The time has come, in this week of lifting the lid on cricket corruption, to reveal the virus at the heart of classical music, the canker in the operatic apple. For years, those of us in the business have tried to keep quiet about the existence of those shadowy men who sidle up to you before curtain-up at Covent Garden, La Scala or the Met and whisper in your ear: "Ten to one Juan Diego Flórez misses the 6th top C in Ah! Mes Amis"; "Twenty-five to one Angela G...

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