Why we need English National Opera

Why we need English National Opera

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norman lebrecht

July 13, 2021

For infinite media gimmickry like this:

We’re on the lookout for Britain’s WORST singers to take part in #AnyoneCanSing on #SkyArts where they’ll work with us to completely transform their voices in just 3 months 🎶
The deadline to apply is THIS FRIDAY 👉 bit.ly/3wH16nv

Comments

  • Sue Sonata Form says:

    That film about Florence Foster Jenkins is the bitter end. Can there be more predictable fodder to dish up to the public than this twee, cloying and pretentious twaddle? I guess film-makers have realized there is a huge ‘boomer’ cohort out there who want to see films about haughty grand dames, alzheimer’s disease, adoption, marriages that are long in the tooth and people in their twilight years suddenly deciding they want to sing??

    PASS!!!

  • caranome says:

    AutoTune can do it instantly, live. Don’t need 3 months.

  • Allen says:

    “We’re on the lookout for Britain’s WORST singers to take part in #AnyoneCanSing on #SkyArts where they’ll work with us to completely transform their voices in just 3 months”

    A suggestion, SKY. Instead of this downmarket cr*p, why not be on the lookout for singers with potential and work with them instead?

    • Bean says:

      You call it downmarket, I call it introducing new audiences to the artform in a way that’s interesting and accessible.

      Glyndebourne Academy already does what you suggest.

      • Allen says:

        “I call it introducing new audiences to the artform”

        Evidence that it works please. I still like my idea better – so why not film Glyndebourne Academy instead? Not downmarket enough is my guess.

  • Wurm says:

    Will any music critics have the guts to enter?

  • Will says:

    Got them full pages of coverage in the press, pretty smart on ENO’s part I think.

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