Wagner festival recruits top trainer
OperaLongborough Festival Opera, which stages Wagner operas in England’s green and pleasant, has chosen the head of the National Opera Studio as its next CEO.
Emily Gottlieb has spent nine years runniung NOS and 15 years before that at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Longborough, a family-owned company in the west country, gets by without a penny of public subsidy. Emily said: ‘I’m thrilled to join the Longborough team, especially in this exciting and ambitious year where this intrepid company is mounting Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle.’
It is hard to understand why ENO gets £12 Million to run a truncated season over four months whereas Loughborough can mount Ring Cycles with no subsidy. Public subsidy is essential but one does sometimes wonder if it’s ending up in the right hands.
Because Longborough performs a maximum 4 operas a year over a 2 month period and does not employ a full-time orchestra, production department and chorus; or staff and maintain a huge West End theatre for 12 months of the year. Full-time opera companies are expensive. Longborough’s achievement is hugely impressive but it is made possible by paring everything but the fundraising function back to absolute essentials – that and a long run of near-perfect artistic judgement. You want a sizeable season of full-scale opera in a major city at affordable prices? Entirely different economic animal.
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