Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have seen a particularly effusive tweet I posted on Friday evening, after a stunning evening of music at the Wigmore Hall given by Alice Coote and Julius Drake. It bore the title, ‘I myself am the enemy who must be loved?
Alright, nobody panic. Yes, this post involves the ‘W’ word, and yes, it’s quite likely that inequalities of some nature will be mentioned. But let’s all take a deep breath, leave the soapbox in the corner for a minute, and take a moment to enjoy a little speech by the
Some thoughts on opera, funding, and finding audiences… At the end of a week where the game of two halves rather lost its equal opportunities for both sides, newspaper and online debate has produced a raft of articles concerning a slightly different kind of inequality. When the 2015-18 Arts Council funding
