Should The Pearl Fishers have pulled the plug? | Vanessa Thorpe

With both the lead tenor and his understudy off sick, was it wrong for the ENO production to carry on regardless?How disabled does a production have to be before the theatre brings the curtain down on it? John Berry, the artistic director of the English National Opera, has suggested a formula to me today, if not a definitive answer. "When people have travelled all the way in to London to see a show and perhaps had a meal first, I think they would be more disappointed to find the show was not goi...

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