Something I forgot to mention about ENO
NewsSir Nicholas Kenyon CBE, opera critic of the Daily Telegraph, has delivered a withering assessment this morning of Arts Council England’s latest funding round.
Designating it ‘an attack on opera’, Kenyon lambasts in particular the ruthless defunding of English National Opera.
Somehow, he omits to declare a personal interest by mentioning the long, weary years he spent as a member of the ENO board.
These connections matter.
No doubt they got cut by an over-zealous sub-editor.
I *think* you *may* be over-generous in your suggestion that an editor might have been involved in the omission.
As a former board member, he is even more entitled to speak about the ENO’s loss of public funding.
As a current journalist, he has an obligation to disclose his personal interest in the matter.
One thing I’ll never understand: Why are Tories up-in-arms at the ACE’s decision to withdraw ongoing funding for the ENO? The ACE is enacting the government’s so-called “levelling up” policy which is essentially an excuse for further cuts to arts.
“Why are Tories up-in-arms at the ACE’s decision to withdraw ongoing funding for the ENO”
They are?
What? A grant for Blackpool lights? And a grant to a centre to Wakefkeld. Hardly levelling up, or putting ENO HQ into Salford beside the BBC fiasco – or Manchester, as they call it!