Ruddigore | Opera review

Grand, LeedsGRandIt was once fashionable to be rude about Ruddigore, Gilbert and Sullivan's ­complex take on gothic melodrama and Victorian morbidity. Before its premiere in 1887, Gilbert expressed perplexity over the apparently heavyweight nature of Sullivan's score and it subsequently became a cliche to state that the work was "too operatic" for its own good. Nowadays of course it's those same uncertainties of tone that appeal to us. Ruddigore is part social satire, part ­horror story an...

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