Raymond Gubbay’s Savoy Opera opens. With cheap tickets, the opera attracts an audience you don’t typically see at Covent Garden. “It’s a myth that opera is posh; it’s the most visceral of art forms, preoccupied with love, sex and death. It’s just opera-goers who have given it a bad name. If Gubbay can reclaim it for coach parties who might otherwise go to Mamma Mia!, good for him.”