Ruddigore at Wilton’s Music Hall
In the canon of G&S operettas, Ruddigore (1887) is perhaps best known as the work which satirises nineteenth-century melodrama and gothic horror stories, and offended Victorian sensibilities by having a group of ancestral portraits come to life, a lady singing a duet with one of those ghosts, and to cap it all, a title that was unacceptably close to a …