This week's arts diary
David Mitchell's new opera, Guardian hack Tom Service's new career, and the Theatre Uncut guide to making drama out of a crisisA novel approach to opera There's a school of thought that says Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Anna Nicole (which premiered at the Royal Opera House last month) and David Sawer's Skin Deep (for Opera North a few years back) were somewhat let down by their librettos. The words were written by, r…