The Latest Breaking News from ENO

Letters: Withdrawing state subsidy and moving the company to Manchester will destroy it, writes John Nickson. Plus letters from Tony Lamb, Elspeth Knights and Joanne Columbine

The rug has been pulled out from many of the capital’s arts organisations, but they’re not going to take it lying down

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, November 7, 2022.

RIGHT now, London has two opera houses. (Berlin has three.) There’s the Royal Opera, the grand one, in Covent Garden, and, in the West End, you can see English National Opera a mile off, under the sparkly orb of the London Coliseum. They’re different. The Royal Opera attracts singers you’d…

The prestigious national institution said it was considering moving its headquarters to the city

Some of the capital’s most prestigious venues face huge funding cuts or removal of Arts Council support altogether

English National Opera to create new base, possibly in Manchester, but will still manage Coliseum

Company that brought Jenna Coleman and Anne-Marie Duff to the stage lead arts exodus from London

If anything, the show could be more irreverent, more boisterous