Another weekend, another new Norma in Vienna. After Vasily Barkhatov’s production at Theater an der Wien last Sunday, the 'Battle of the Normas' continued with Cyril Teste directing at the Staatsoper.

It’s good to have a hobby in retirement, but for 89-year-old Norma Hancock, reading and pottering around the garden just wasn’t cutting it. So in a move that gobsmacked her grandson ...