Let’s hear it for the audience. For all those people who, in pursuit of the magical experience that is hearing music live, will cough up sometimes sizeable ticket fees, book babysitters, dash from work and wolf down a sandwich on the train, battle with difficult parking or stump across grassy
News and drama. The two are, in modern terms, basically inseparable: stories hit the headlines precisely because they are dramatic, that things are at crisis point, that heads may roll. This is what makes for column inches. And also, as it happens, stirring opera plots. Appropriately enough, then, the New
Some thoughts on opera, funding, and finding audiences… Staying with opera and cultural attitudes, there are a few other recent stories worth throwing into the mix here. One is a debate in The Guardian from early June between Stephen Moss and Bonnie Greer: ‘Does it matter that arts audiences are
