Equity union says proposed pay and job cuts amount to ‘cultural vandalism’ that threatens company’s artistic future
On Friday the chorus of English National Opera were on stage in front of more than 2000 people as section of an exhilarating opening night of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. On Monday they performed a two-minute Gilbert and Sullivan song for a tiny audience of journalists. But it is the latter which may,in the long race, prove the most notable.
The 44-strong chorus sang Hail Poetry from The Pirates of Penzance to launch their campaign to save wages, and jobs and,in their eyes, the very future of ENO.
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Source: theguardian.com