Opera isn't dying out, but the audience is. In the first of a series of articles, Deborah Grayson explores the future prospects of the genre.
My first memory of Fiona Shaw is as the repressed school ma'am lusting after Tom Selleck in Three Men and a Little Lady, a performance that at 3 I found deeply disturbing. There is an element of this nervous sexuality in her production of Elegy for Young Lovers, the fourth co-production between the ENO and Young Vic following Lost Highway, Punch and Judy and After Dido, which is showing at the theatre until the end of next week.