Ruddigore

Jo Davies directs Opera North's 2010 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Victorian melodrama. Richard Burkhard plays Sir Despard Murgatroyd, a man under pressure who has inherited a witch's curse forcing him to commit a crime a day or die in agony. Other cast members include Grant Doyle (Robin Oakapple / Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd), Amy Freston (Rose Maybud) and Heather Shipp (Mad Margaret). John Wilson conducts.