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It’s Black Thursday in Wales as opera chorus shrinks to 20

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It’s Black Thursday in Wales as opera chorus shrinks to 20

Yesterday was the deadline for applying for voluntary redundancies at Welsh National Opera. From today, cost-cutting officials will be issuing redundancy notices with the aim of reducing a once-proud chorus to a payroll of twenty.

The guilty parties are Arts Council England and its puppet in Wales.

Christopher Ball, a founding member of Friends of WNO, has provided bursaries for 30 years to 35 singers. Now he says, ‘why did I bother?’ He’s cutting WNO out of his will.

 

 

 

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