Arts Council showing their belief that levelling up means bringing everything down to the same level. Rather than aspiring to excellence. Denying people the opportunity to experience it is incredibly short sighted.
Glyndebourne regrets to announce that it will no longer be able to tour as planned in 2023, following a reduction to its Arts Council England (ACE) funding for touring and its learning and engagement work. https://t.co/ilwLXsI3jj
✨Looking back on a year of wonderful recordings today with the Gramophone team's albums of the year...
First up is Editor in Chief James Jolly, whose album of the year was @cyrille_dubois and #TristanRaes' album of Faure's Complete Songs 🎼
https://t.co/fp6Zr3xEKL
@ChooseOperaENO@E_N_O @susanbu1 @rosplowright Xerses; the Miller Turn of the Screw; Rigby as Lucretia; Priam; Richard van Allan as Don Quixote; @natalyaromaniw as Butterfly and in her long final scene in that Jack the Ripper thing; Billy Budd. I can go on. And on. And on.
@ChooseOperaENO@E_N_O @susanbu1 @rosplowright Silver Tassie; Della in Italiana; Königskinder; Willard in Khovanshina; the Miller Rigoletto; Ethna Robinson as Cherubino; Forza with Barham and Summers; Gwynne Howell in everything; Tomlinson in everything
Today, I actually, properly, FINALLY finished and signed-off a project I've been working on for over two years: a newly engraved edition of Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande. I started Act 1 during covid lockdown, and have just done the final checks and tweaks this afternoon.