Call for ACE chair to resign over ENO cuts
Chair of Arts Council England Sir Nicholas Serota should resign over the decision to cut funding from the English National Opera (…
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NPO decisions: ENO ‘baffled and shocked’ by funding cut
Arts Council England's plans to cut English National Opera funding and move organisation out of London have been described as…
Theatre subtitling declines post-lockdown
Access charity Stagetext has reported a marked drop in demand for the digital subtitling of theatre productions following the retu…
Royal Opera House begins teacher training initiative
The Royal Opera House has partnered with The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust (TEFAT) to deliver a year-long scheme for teachers…
Opera gaining traction
Far from the elitist artform he once thought it was, François Matarasso has discovered opera offers possibilities for co-creation…
Royal Opera House unveils subscription streaming service
The Royal Opera House has announced a new online subscription service offering works from its archives, behind the scenes features…
Cairn: a new association for performing arts professionals
Following the resignation of the majority of Equity’s Scottish National Committee last year, a group of creative arts profes…
Opera UK to discuss sustainability, diversity and advocacy
Opera UK has announced a series of online events to be held in the first week of July that will facilitate discussion around the f…
Festival commissions homeless for operas
A new year-long festival will encourage artists and audiences to view their cities through the eyes of their homeless residents. S…
Train station mini-operas celebrate female musicians
Seven mini-operas were performed at St. Pancras International on Tuesday (February 8) to mark International Women's Day. The w…
Glyndebourne invests £25 per tonne of emissions
Glyndebourne will invest £25 per tonne of its direct and energy use emissions into sustainability measures. The opera house…
Orchestra refresh helped ‘progress our ambitions’, ETO says
Disappointment was "inevitable" when the English Touring Opera (ETO) diversified its orchestra, its management says. The…
My Gurus: Practice pays off
Countertenor Hugh Cutting, winner of this year’s Kathleen Ferrier award, reflects on the people who have inspired and guided…
‘A contemporary horror story’
How do artists engage with people living with dementia? Stephen Higgins, Electra Perivolaris and Nina Swann share their diffe…
Online opera course to take students ‘behind the scenes’
A new online initiative for opera lovers from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) aims to shed light on the…
Glyndebourne to launch on-demand streaming service
Opera house Glyndebourne is set to launch an on-demand streaming service, Glyndebourne Encore, next month. The service will offer…
When best intentions backfire?
In trying to diversify its company, English Touring Opera shot itself – and 14 freelancers – in the foot.
Alarm at plans to cut higher education arts funding in half
A consultation on plans to cut arts education funding by £17m says the subjects are not a "strategic priority"…
Don’t take your opera audiences for granted
James Clutton says supporters have stood by cultural organisations through the toughest of times. They deserve transparency, care…
V&A’s Theatre and Performance archive ‘at risk of becoming a dead collection’
Staff restructuring proposals that threaten the museum department have been condemned as a "devastatingly bad idea&…
All I need is a hairbrush microphone
Ruth Pitt reflects on the power of music and the projects that put it at the heart of recovery.
Orchestral music’s popularity grew in lockdown
Movie scores and video game soundtracks are broadening the genre's appeal, attracting a new generation of fans who are more li…
Singing softly could cut Covid risk
DCMS and the University of Bristol publicised the research findings as proof that 'singing is no riskier than speaking…
Outdoor performances given green light for July 11
Indoor performance pilots with the London Symphony Orchestra will shape further reopening plans amid concerns about the safet…
