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

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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