BBC Proms2024 - Prom 68: Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Live at the BBC Proms: Garsington Opera conducted by Douglas Boyd and with soloists including Iestyn Davies and Lucy Crowe perform Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

★★★★ BBC Proms 68 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Garsington Opera Philharmonia Orchestra - Strong cast and top orchestra project as best they can in a fine company's first #Proms visit - David Nice finds an eerie beauty sometimes faintly glittering theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

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'The magic truly took over' Arts Desk What an unforgettable evening at the enchanting Royal Albert Hall following our BBC Proms debut with Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Philharmonia Orchestra A dream-like experience from start to finish. 📸 BBC / Chris Christodoulou

Get a sense of what we've been missing by reading Alexandra Coghlan on the Last Night. Such writing! Such wisdom! Welcome back Alexandra.

And here we have part of the problem. That an apparent “adviser to Department for Culture, Media and Sport” seems not to be aware that both Scottish Opera & English National Opera are now part-time companies (SO for 20 yrs now) beggars belief. Little wonder that the #Opera sector in the UK is collapsing. #SaveWNO 1/2 🧵

1st night #Rigoletto Welsh National Opera last night & industrial action by #Chorus & #Orchestra. That Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales & Arts Council England are bringing the company to its knees is simply criminal, as are proposals to make the musicians part-time. 1/ 🧵

Wonderful opening night of the season English National Opera with an old favourite #ENOBoheme. A brilliant production with a young cast which brought great life to the piece. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laura Kuenssberg is paid £325,000 a year Chris Mason is paid £265,000 Sue Gray was paid £170,000 Sir Keir Starmer is paid £167,000 I'm not convinced that BBC political journalists should earn twice as much as the Prime Minister or his Chief of Staff

Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ... Fine work, people. Fine work.

This seems to be a thing. Booksellers are brilliant.

I couldn’t agree more and music is a part of all this. Let’s hope the PM can deliver this for our young. If there are State Schools (my grandson is in one in S London) which properly deliver The Arts, why not all? It’s not even aspirational, it’s surely mandatory.

"We need to stand up for our company, for opera and for the arts. We believe they are worth fighting for" - Welsh National Opera chorus and Equity member Philip addresses the audience during curtain call for Rigoletto at New Theatre Oxford.

With a son who is half American we are holding our breath today… please vote and think of the rights of those more vulnerable than yourselves. Vote with your loved ones in mind whose lives will be impacted by Donald Trump’s fascist rhetoric. This is an extremely serious moment.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Slow clap, you misogynistic bunch of bellends 🙄

Spirit-lifting evening at #ENOElixir: a witty, affectionate staging with lovely turns from romantic leads Rhian Lois & Thomas Atkins. As ever, the Chorus (2nd photo!) sound spectacular and give the production such momentum with their charisma & ceaseless energy. A *lot* of fun.

Excoriating words from Sheila Noakes: “The govt must take a long, hard look at whether Arts Council England is fit for purpose.” “The govt needs to take responsibility & act. They must step into the #Opera space before ACE ruins it for good.” Lisa Nandy MP we need action! Department for Culture, Media and Sport #SaveWNO

For anyone that missed our English National Opera production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard in 2022 it’s being repeated this evening on BBC4 at 22:15pm…. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…