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.

The ROH (& ballet) is a flagship company bringing mostly international artists in most disciplines of the art form. It is not our NATIONAL opera company. Not in terms of ambitions of education, price entry level, outreach, audience demographic, innovation,artists or identity. ENO is/has always been these things. That is why it created English National Opera North which tours the smaller cities / venues in midlands & up to Newcastle. Why axe the National company in our capital where larger audiences for every production will only be sustainable there

I just got home from a week trying to learn and sing an
opera role in a new version and language, utterly shattered. I sang 23 hours Monday to Friday. I am back in my parents house every day (when I am not away rehearsing or performing) where there is now only my mother. My Sister Stella and I were there 24/7 -as we are now -all way through lock down until my fathers death from dementia. I have been living like this since Feb 2015 when my mother collapsed with a massive stroke. My sister and I have had no holiday, no break, no unbroken nights sleep,