The Rake's Progress, Royal Opera House, London

London: In opera today, new productions, as often as not, mean shared productions. The budgetary benefits are obvious, particularly for non-cash-cow works outside the standard repertoire, but there is always a danger that the company that doesn’t initiate the staging will get reheated seconds, or, in the case of the Royal Opera’s “new” The Rake’s Progress, fried-up fourths.