Opera North’s witty adaptation of Belloc’s deliciously macabre Cautionary Tales for Children was a big hit with audiences and critics when it first premiered in March 2011. I’m back in Leeds covering the mezzo role, which includes two fantastically-badly behaved children, lying Matilda and daredevil George, both of whom meet messy ends. Composed by Errollyn Wallen, in whose YES I also sang at the Linbury Studio last year, and adapted and directed by Pia Furtado.