Fantastic (said with more than a tad sarcasm!), I have just seen on the Ekklesia website that the Christian protest seems to have had the exact opposite effect on people.
Not only did it boost the ratings of the show on BBC2 to 1.8 million (gaint the expected 1 million) but the west end bookings for the opera have soared too. You can read more here.
A link from ship of fools about this that was fairly interesting…http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Features/frameit.htm?0105/god_bbc.html