If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’ve missed it, I’m afraid.

But I think it would be sad if no one paid tribute to one of the loveliest curtain calls I have ever seen.

Amanda Roocroft, reprising her award-winning title role performance in the English National Opera’s production of Jenufa, gave a kind of manic, life-enhancing, I’ve-just-utterly-loved-doing-that-and-I-know-it-was-special dance that was a joy to behold.

When I tried to explain it to a friend, they asked whether it was like Kate Winslet’s Golden Globe acceptance speech, that is - I think this is what they were suggesting - a sobbing, over-the-top luvvie affair.

Well, no it wasn’t actually, though personally I think Winslet was utterly entitled to being somewhat overcome when she has been nominated so often and won so infrequently.

And I guess I may just have caught Roocroft on a particularly exuberant night.

But whether one-off or a feature of the run just finished, it was FABULOUS to see someone who had obviously enjoyed a difficult and dangerous performance.

And on the subject of ENO, a belated tribute to Sky Arts. Due to present a live broadcast of Jonathan Miller's new production of La Boheme - apologies can't work out how to do accents on this system - the company was thwarted by that snowy white-out when London ground to a halt.

The opening night was cancelled. But Sky Arts kept their entire outside broadcast team there and tore up their planned on-screen schedule to broadcast the belated opening two nights later.

Respect.

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