underground opera

As I have started to design 'The Marriage of Figaro' , the creative juices have just rolled out, and I came up with the idea of an opera set on an underground station. We have a great book in our local bookshop of all the closed underground station which aren't used anymore; they are filled with beautiful 30's styling.

Tis photo is from the London Underground History website, which has the most fatastic pictures and facts about disused stations. Churchill during the war used the down street station as a air-raid shelter and had a bath and boiler installed! I love the idea of the characters leaving and arriving on tube trains!

I just have to find a suitable opera that would benefit from this transposition. The problem could be 'Marriage' could be the girl that could benefit! Arrrggh! my current design is set in period and uses complicated interaction between the costume and lighting. Oooh, if only I could channel one idea! It is like the night Thomas and I wanted to do a whole opera in knitting but that is a whole new idea.........