An Opera Talent Show That Works (At Least It’s Fun)

Opera-tunity is a TV show documenting the search for raw operatic talent, and its fabulously entertaining TV, writes Noel Holston. “The challenge that the English National Opera set for itself was to see if its scouts and coaches could find amateur singers – people with great instruments but against whom life otherwise had conspired – and bring at least one or two of them to a professional level in a matter of months. The ENO got 2,500 video applications, from people literally singing in the shower to roofers belting from the ramparts.”