I know everyone is very angry about this, but please PLEASE fill it in. The only thing that will matter is data, not tweets. I live in hope that this data can then be presented to the next government in order to redress the current sh*tshow.

Just two days until applications close for all of our 2024 training programmes. Here's a reminder of what you've only got 48 hours left to sign up for:

The new BYO hub is live, which means applications for ALL of our 2024 live programmes are also live. Singers, stage managers, directors, designers, music staff – they can all submit an application now. hub.byo.org.uk/programmes-2

Big news Thursday! We've launched the first online opera training hub in the UK. And we've called it... BYO hub. We believe it will open doors for people who are starting or thinking about starting a career in opera. byo.org.uk/articles/intro…

Happy Decollation Day musiktheater-im-revier.de/de/performance…

We're on the lookout for new trustees to join our board, particularly people with experience in fundraising, finance or education. Does that sound like you? Does it sound like anyone you know?
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Please share far and wide with your networks! Deadline 10 Sept!

Tonight’s the night! Our amazing trainees will join forces with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the world famous Three Choirs Festival to perform the ‘morality’, #ThePilgrimsProgress - and it is sounding *heavenly* 👼🏼

Thank you so much to everyone who’s already contributed to this - there are ten of us fighting for what we’re owed, so please help us if you can, and if you can’t, please share with someone who might! gofund.me/982d4ed6

Thanks so much to Gramophone Opera Now magazine Hattie Butterworth for helping bring our story to a wider audience - please help us push for a just resolution

A few weeks ago Teatro del Maggio cancelled a production of Die Meistersinger, just a month before we were due to start rehearsals. They claimed their financial situation demanded it and craved our understanding.

I’m shoring this fragment against my ruin

The fantastic BBC Singers, Britain’s only professional chamber choir, to be disbanded in July to save about £1.5m, only a tad above Gary Lineker’s annual BBC salary. Strange priority for a supposedly public-service broadcaster.

“What does he do?”

‘He’s a conductor’

“No but, like, for a job?”

‘That is his…’

“No but how does he earn a LIVING?!”

‘He’s literally been knighted for…’

“I can’t put that, I’m putting farmer, it’s done now”

The Save Gary campaign has won. Now let’s Save The Singers …. Leaked letter: 'A toxic culture of fear and paranoia' at the BBC, from the D-G down - SlippediscSlippedisc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht slippedisc.com/2023/03/leaked…

My response, on behalf of our community music groups, to the BBC's call for singers for a 'national choir' to celebrate the king's coronation. BBC Singers Association of British Choral Directors #WeAreTheBBCSingers

Cha-fucking-peau 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Correct me if I’m wrong (maths not my strong point) but if the BBC Singers annual budget is £1.6 million (as I gather) that’s a mere 10,000 licence fees. 92,000+ have signed the petition. #keepsinging

Amid the noise re Gary Lineker another disastrous move by the BBC in response to the Tory government political pressure and cuts — the abolition of BBC Singers and cuts to BBC orchestras. This is another resonance with 30s Germany — the assault on culture and the arts. 1/2