English National Opera? Just Shut It Down Already, Says Director Of The Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips: “Spending millions on desperate experiments has become a habit of mind. It is the last of the patrician gestures in which our system of public sponsorship will allow an educated (sort of) elite to impose its preferences on everyone else. … Of course one regrets that many musicians would lose their jobs if ENO were to close … but the mistake is more fundamental, and was bought into long ago. Why … [is] this whopping imposition on our pockets tolerable in the first place?”

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