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Liverpool demands ‘level playing field’ in race to become ENO’s new home

City writes to arts secretary amid reports ministers backing Manchester and Birmingham to host English National Opera

The Guardian - UK

Kathryn Harries obituary

Versatile singer whose roles ranged from Wagner and Janáček to Dido in the first complete performance of Berlioz’s Les Troyens

The Guardian - UK

The flaws in Nicholas Hytner’s plan to save the performing arts

Letters: Jamie Hale, Richard Eyre and Chris Hodgkins respond to the director’s proposals

The Guardian - UK

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English National Opera reflects on ‘challenging’ year as new season is revealed

The company will stage The Handmaid’s Tale, 7 Deaths Of Maria Callas and La Traviata during its 2023/24 season.

The Independent UK

Russell Watson: English National Opera would be great for the north

Watson, originally from Salford, Greater Manchester, spoke before performing with the English National Opera for a Eurovision event in Liverpool.

The Independent UK

Bristol could be new home of English National Opera

But Liverpool and Manchester are strong contenders

Bristol Post

The week in classical: Blue; Bach: Mass in B Minor – review

A potent US tale of Black lives hits home with fervour and humanity at ENO. Plus shock and roar from John Eliot Gardiner at 80

The Guardian - UK

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Blue review – racial violence, love and loss in a lyrical and angry work of unflinching power

Jeanine Tesori’s opera, with its tragically familiar narrative of police brutality, is compellingly told in Tinuke Craig’s nuanced production for English National Opera.

The Guardian - UK

English National Opera gets £24m to help with move — and can keep London base

The ENO will be able to keep its London Coliseum base while moving headquarters as part of the Government’s levelling-up agenda

Evening Standard

English National Opera to receive up to £24 million to support new base outside London

It comes after the ACE announced plans in November to remove the opera company as a national portfolio organisation.

The Independent UK

English National Opera set for £24m to support relocation from London

Equity union welcomes increased funding while continuing to oppose move being imposed on ENO chorus

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian Eurovision winner ‘likely to collaborate with opera stars’

The boss of English National Opera was speaking at the launch of EuroFestival in Liverpool.

The Independent UK

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

‘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

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Liverpool Echo

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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

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The Independent UK

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

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 Guardian - UK

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

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

Manchester Evening News

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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