I think every generation feels like they have it tough, but this passage is a brutal reality for gen z.

The #Arts are not a luxury, Lucy Frazer & Lesley Griffiths. They are our bread and butter. They nourish and excite, stimulate and provoke, heal and educate. Life would be nothing without them.

So, for god’s sake, invest in them! #SaveWNO Welsh National Opera

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This with bells on. ⬇️ 🔔

Welsh National Opera is being systematically dismantled. This is just the beginning of the end. Soon #Wales will be the #LandOfSong no more unless our politicians wake up & intervene! Lesley Griffiths Lucy Frazer

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So pleased my #Lilac is covered in flowers this year. The smell is divine! 🥰

#Flowers #Gardening #FlowerHunting

This, this and this again. ⬇️ I have no words for the destruction that both Arts Council England & Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales are wreaking on #Opera . Soon there will be nothing left. Please sign this petition:

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We have to force our politicians to act now! Lesley Griffiths

Exactly. It’s a disgrace beyond words that Welsh National Opera - founded by amateur musicians from all walks of life to become one of the world’s great companies - should be defunded by politicians and bureaucrats on an ideological whim about elitism. Please sign.

“I’m now hooked,” says first-time #Opera goer, having seen Welsh National Opera perform in Bristol, which is cut from their schedule next spring. Anyone can get into opera at any age but soon it won’t be possible, as the art form is being decimated.
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My perfect little #Auriculas for some #MondayMotivation . Who couldn’t love them?!

#Flowers #Gardening #FlowerHunting

And all under threat. 😥

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Lesley Griffiths Lucy Frazer Kevin Brennan MP

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I have to admit my diet was broken momentarily today, as how could I resist this that my eldest rustled up for lunch…?! 😲

#ChocolateFondant #ComfortEating #HomeCooking

April is bowel cancer awareness month and if you have any symptoms that concern you please see your GP, I did I had bleeding and I went to see my doctor next thing I’m being told you have cancer, scarey but with our Wonderful NHS and the support of Bowel Cancer UK I survived

Still on a high from last night's Death in Venice - classical music is so so important to protect and it's in a perilous state in the UK now. Please sign this petition to support WNO

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Elizabeth Atherton Welsh National Opera Hear, hear. I too owe my career in music academia to the opportunities given to me to sing with Welsh National Opera (in Britten, in fact) as a child growing up in Cardiff #SaveWNO

Enough is enough. And I, for one, will not sit back and watch while the company where I began my career is destroyed. Without urgent intervention Welsh National Opera will be dismantled.

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There’s so much more to the work that Welsh National Opera does than just mounting lavish #Opera productions (though they do that expertly).

This is a project for #Refugees in #Southampton . But for how much longer…? #SaveWNO Lesley Griffiths Lucy Frazer

For those of us who’ve been by the side of loved ones as they’ve died hideous deaths, this is WAY too close to the bone for comfort. Such a distressing and realistic scene. 😢 #NeverTooYoung #ShirleyMacLaine #TermsOfEndearment #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth #YesToDignity

And it’s all under threat. I’ve said it before: a company like this takes decades of nurturing to create and about 20 minutes to dismantle. If we allow it to disappear on our watch, we will regret it. #landofsong

The stage management team are the epitome of professionalism. Honestly, this company gives any opera house in the world a run for its money, one arm behind its back. I look forward to singing with the orchestra tomorrow, all of them total virtuosos in Britten’s score.

In Cardiff today for brush-up rehearsals Welsh National Opera I am strongly reminded what a superb chorus we have here: fabulous individuals who make up a world-class team. The accumulated expertise, experience, sheer quality is exceptional. Smaller roles in DiV all totally nailed.