Thread by @AliceCoote

INCANDESCENT.
How to sing a performance of Orfeo tonight at English National Opera North( @Opera_North ) when it's parent company being eviscerated on 20 weeks notice by @DCMS @ace_national @ace__london. Nicholas Serota needs resign in honourable protest & not hide when #ENO

which is slap bang CENTRAL to the Arts Ecosystem in this nation is being destroyed. There will BE no artists to tour to or perform in all UK regions if this 92 yr old company, founded for UK artists /audiences is lost.

ENO develops every single artist:-singers, conductors, designers, directors, librettists,repetiteurs, casting directors, agents , you name it ..ALL in one way or another in their lives in the UK opera arts music community.

25 years ago I was trained by @E_N_O & performed larger & larger roles over a decade along with its northern 'junior'opera North. I was spotted @E_N_O by US agent & subsequently established myself

Worldwide returning -always- to base @E_N_O or Op North throughout career.
Here I am 25 years later about to drive to Nottingham for a touring performance of a great work of art that tells the most human of all of stories -love lost &regained - surrounded by artists & musicians

& all who enable opera in one way or other who have been created / nurtured / developed/ inspired or directly supported by the mother ship @E_N_O .
WHERE THE HELL does @ace_national think these musicians and artists come from that will magically emerge

to give of themselves on stages and concert halls throughout this beleaguered country and most importantly inspire educate and encourage young people

to dare to enter the arts & create or perform or enable, and -as we do -give their whole lives to this craft of communicating important ideas and feelings for us all ?HOW to SING when the very SOUL and SOURCE of our UK opera community has been thrown out with the trash???

In 5, 10, 15 , 20 time who will be filling my place on this stage in Nottingham tonight ?
Sort this out NOW before this catastrophic betrayal of the future generations of artists and audiences is lost completely @DCMS @ace_national @ace__london @GOVUK @Change

#EnglishNationalOpera #opera #dcmd #fundingcuts #artscouncil #ukgov #government #education #artseducation