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If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023

Canberrans access all arias at the opera

Theatre: How can opera be a democratic form of art?

The Canberra Times · Dec 9, 2022

Booing happens in opera houses, but is it acceptable or justifiable?

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Martin Kettle in which he addresses the heckling of 12-year-old soprano Malakai M Bayoh

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022