Light at the end

Robert

● REFLECTING ON MY DECADES-LONG campaign to destroy opera in Britain, I have to admit in all modesty that it seems to be going rather well. And while everyone credits the Arts Council — and Nicholas Serota’s hommage to East Anglian iconoclast “Smasher” Dowsing certainly scores well for execution, if less for artistic impression — this scarcely gives due recognition to our great opera companies themselves, whose staunch work alienating their audiences and annoying the tits off of everyone else is finally paying off. There will be more of this intensely boring subject anon, no doubt, if we get a particularly slow month. But if the English National Opera can’t sell half the seats for the pitiful number of performances it now puts on, why the hell (you may ask)…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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