AY WHAT YOU LIKE, the opera gang was out of the traps like greased pigs with their Dutch auction of cheap gestures. Once they’d detailed some intern to find Ukraine on the map, it was all go: playing the Ukie anthem before shows, lighting up the theatre in blue and yellow … and then they went all imaginative: in Madrid, they wrapped Siegfried’s corpse in the flag; and top of the twats was Mariusz Trelinski of the Polish National Opera, announcing they were cancelling Modest Mussorgsky’s opera .
