Somebody, somewhere, must want an opera company, right? That seems to be the thinking behind the latest agreement struck between ENO (fighting to stay alive) and Arts Council England (fighting to save face).
After ACE cut ENO’s annual funding from a cool £12.8m to a freezing zero in November last year, and demanded that it move to Manchester (much to Manchester’s surprise, and that of Opera North, which operates very effectively in the region ta very much), there was an outcry.
