The shoulder chippers still complain about under representation.
It cost huge amounts of money for very little reason.
It hollowed out White City, losing jobs for thousands of less well off support staff in a poor area of London.
Meanwhile it didn’t provide good jobs for those in Salford – because everyone relocated.
The notion that a niche and perceived high brow pursuit like opera would be as popular in a proudly working class city like Manchester is laughable.
Very unhelpful comment from Burnham, shifting the narrative from Arts Council cuts to ‘snooty Londoners’ looking down on northerners. The ENO is unhappy because they’re all being asked to uproot their entire lives at the drop of a hat without any kind of concrete plan, in order for the ENO to keep existing with considerably less funding than it received in London.
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I’ll say the BBC isn’t stronger in Media City.
The shoulder chippers still complain about under representation.
It cost huge amounts of money for very little reason.
It hollowed out White City, losing jobs for thousands of less well off support staff in a poor area of London.
Meanwhile it didn’t provide good jobs for those in Salford – because everyone relocated.
The notion that a niche and perceived high brow pursuit like opera would be as popular in a proudly working class city like Manchester is laughable.
Very unhelpful comment from Burnham, shifting the narrative from Arts Council cuts to ‘snooty Londoners’ looking down on northerners. The ENO is unhappy because they’re all being asked to uproot their entire lives at the drop of a hat without any kind of concrete plan, in order for the ENO to keep existing with considerably less funding than it received in London.