With the English National Opera facing a funding cut and enforced relocation, soprano Lesley Garrett warns Sky News that vital arts institutions are being 'set up to fail' by Arts Council England.
Garrett, who credits the ENO with"reinventing accessibility to opera", went on:"They are lying if they say that the proposals that they have made will do anything other than close our company."They need to come and tell us: 'We don't want to fund you anymore. Go and shrivel up and die because that's what we're going to do'. That's what we face doing.
Despite organisations including ENO, The Royal Opera House and Donmar Warehouse receiving cuts to their annual funding, ACE said 276 institutions that weren't previously part of the programme will now receive funding.As part of proposed plans, ACE said £43.5m would go to organisations outside London, contributing to levelling up for the next three years.
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