Welsh National Opera took its tremendous Peter Grimes to Birmingham last night. At the curtain call, some of the singers wore t-shirts proclaiming ‘Don’t cut the chorus’.
The message will have fallen on blind eyes and dead ears at the Arts Councils of England and Wales.
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