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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

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

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

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

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

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

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

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

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

Darren Henley said decision to push ENO to leave London will force it to embrace positive changes