Phantom of the Opera review – an inventive and supersized Sydney Harbour spectacular

‘An ideal match’: Joshua Robson as the Phantom and Georgina Hopson as Christine in Handa Opera’s Phantom of the Opera. Photograph: Opera Australia

You know the old adage about buses, right? You wait for one for ages, then two turn up.

It’s been 14 years since the last production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera played in Sydney, when Anthony Warlow reprised the title role that made him an international star. Now, in the space of a few months – thanks to Covid – the city will host two within the space of six months.