Richard Bratby
@RichardBratby
Writer, critic (The Spectator, Gramophone, Bachtrack) and orchestral management survivor. Author of 'Forward' & 'Refiner's Fire' (E&T). Views my own.
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/author/richard-bratby/ 29-04-2010 23:33:49
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Antwn Owen-Hicks 🏴🇪🇺 Elizabeth Atherton Mark Rees Welsh National Opera Lesley Griffiths Lucy Frazer Part of the context for this discussion is that Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales has completely defunded MidWalesOpera - the only company taking full-scale opera productions to smaller stages and towns in Cymru - and filling those theatres.
So let’s stop pretending it’s not ideological.
Glad Richard Bratby and I didn’t walk from the Ditchley Gate to Blenheim Palace, we would have got soaked. Taking our nephew out for dinner tonight in Oxford, once I’ve got the mud/grass off my boots.