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Soundbite of 1998: the Independent year

Saturday 26 December 1998 00:02 GMT
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`We mustn't downgrade the Opera House. I don't want to sit next to somebody in a singlet, a pair of shorts and a smelly pair of trainers'

Sir Colin Southgate, Chairman of the Royal Opera

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