Picture a Day Like This, Royal Opera House

Crimp and Mitchell’s latest venture into the world of contemporary opera is a dazzling triumph of sound and words

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the bigger the institution the less sensitive its handling of ordinary people.

Text of the day: “So don’t let’s pretend we have no responsibility.”

Quote of the day: “But Play House is more open-ended — perhaps appropriately for a young couple who have none of the certainties available to Frank and Milly’s generation.”