Miss Fortune, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: Punning titles aside, Judith Weir's latest opera, premiered at the Bregenz Festival in Austria last year, creates a mixed impression on its arrival on the composer's native soil at Covent Garden. Weir, now 58, has kept faith with the genre ever since the distinctive and appealing voice of her first full-length piece, A Night at the Chinese Opera, attracted attention back in 1987. …