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Britain’s art institutions face death by a thousand cuts. Why are they just putting up with it?

Life-changing organisations are left bloodied and bowed, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2023

‘I fear we are losing a whole generation of talent’: ENO head hits back at the ‘leave London’ ultimatum

As she stages a new production of The Dead City, Korngold’s wild opera banned by the Nazis, English National Opera’s artistic director Annilese Miskimmon talks about the company’s strong present and uncertain future

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2023

Liverpool to host EuroFest in run up to Eurovision Song Contest

A two week cultural festival is planned in the run up to this year's music event

Liverpool Echo · Mar 1, 2023

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If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023

Carmen review – vivid revival finds ENO on fighting form

With Bizet’s opera’s menace and casual cruelty to the fore, cracking performances from soloists and chorus alike ensure that this is a tense and atmospheric production

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2023

English National Opera to receive £11.46m from Arts Council England

Investment will sustain its work in London for another year after ENO was removed from ACE’s national portfolio

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

English National Opera to receive £11m Lottery funding after grant cut

But it said it is ‘concerned’ the one-year funding still leaves a ‘huge amount of uncertainty’ for the future.

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

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Nadine Dorries hits out at Arts Council England over cuts to opera funding

The former culture secretary said the arms-length body was trying to reverse levelling up.

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2023

Gloriana review – superb singing and smart staging illuminate Britten’s coronation opera

English National Opera’s one-off performance of Britten’s uneven opera was very fine in every respect, with Christine Rice an exceptional Elizabeth I

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2022

A fight at the opera: could forcing ENO up north work out?

The ultimatum to English National Opera was attacked as ‘cultural vandalism’, but raised some hopes nearer Manchester

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

Andy Burnham says English National Opera doesn't deserve to come to Manchester if it thinks the city's full of heathens

Mayor attacks 'outdated' attitudes after outcry over potential move out of London

Manchester Evening News · Nov 23, 2022

Wednesday briefing: Inside Arts Council England’s devastating cuts

In today’s newsletter: As enraged arts workers protest, we explore what the new world might look like for our cultural institutions – and why even opera haters should care about the fate of English National Opera

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022

Arts funding cuts ‘cultural vandalism’, says Juliet Stevenson, at DCMS protest

Actor joins demonstration over plans to slash £50m from arts bodies in London as part of levelling-up agenda

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2022

The Mancunian Way: Council Tax conundrum

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, November 21, 2022

Manchester Evening News · Nov 21, 2022

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Manchester Evening News · Nov 20, 2022

Factory arts centre boss explains why moving from London to Manchester would be great for English National Opera

Randel Bryan says his adoped city of Manchester is 'the place where things happen'

Manchester Evening News · Nov 20, 2022

It's time for London to stop moaning and let Greater Manchester have its time - the future of the arts depends on it

News that English National Opera could be moving to Manchester has met with anguish in the national press. They're out of touch

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2022

England no longer values the profound, weird art of opera – and that leaves us all poorer

Cutting funding to ENO will do nothing for ‘levelling up’, but it will do deep, unnecessary damage to our shared cultural life, says Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2022

English National Opera will close before it accepts move to Manchester, says chair

Arts Council England says it will stop funding the ENO unless it moves north

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Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2022

The ENO is in a mess, but moving to Manchester won’t solve its problems

The English National Opera is a strange beast. On one level, it is the second opera house to glitzy Covent Garden, where the musical cognoscenti, wealthy, and government ministers hover to ensure a credible mix of high culture and intentions in (a few) cheap seats. English National Opera has more…

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022

Cuts to funding will decimate English National Opera. This is a howling mistake

The arguments given by Arts Council England ignore all the good work we do – it should think again, says ENO chief executive Stuart Murphy

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022

ENO accuses Arts Council of ‘howling mistake’ over plan to slash funding

Chief executive hits back in row over future of opera and call for shows to be held away from grand venues

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022

Levelling up is a worthy aim. But stealing arts cash from London is cultural vandalism

The Arts Council’s plan to force out the English National Opera reveals that the funding cake is simply too small, not that the capital is greedy

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Slashing English National Opera’s funding is cultural vandalism

Letters: Withdrawing state subsidy and moving the company to Manchester will destroy it, writes John Nickson. Plus letters from Tony Lamb, Elspeth Knights and Joanne Columbine

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2022

ENO mounts fightback against edict to leave London

Singer Bryn Terfel starts petition after arts council removes English National Opera’s funding unless it moves

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2022

Defunding ENO is devastating – but the writing was on the wall

The decision to produce fewer operas at English National Opera sowed the seeds of last week’s disaster – which strips London of an irreplaceable cultural jewel, writes the company’s former musical director

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