Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) I attended one of the listening exercises she held a few weeks ago and I was at the Royal Opera House - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) long-established institutions such as the Oldham Coliseum, which has closed, and the English National Opera - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) Arts Council England’s national portfolio and of which my daughter—with long experience as a freelance opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) Selby and Ainsty, and people up and down the country who cannot stomach a moment more of this Tory soap opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) from proposed job cuts in the BBC orchestras, the funding cuts already made by the Arts Council to opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) last year, an Andrew Lloyd Webber company chose to take a Chinese production of “The Phantom of the Opera - Speech Link
2: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) making it hard for touring musicians to enter the UK, the funding cuts affecting classical music and opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) One constituent who works for a prominent opera company told me that the extra burden they now face makes - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) Deni, a talented musical student who is on the Royal Opera House programme for promising singers, has - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Nearly 80% of the Arts Council’s investment in music is in classical music and nearly 40% is in opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) present the case for so many parts of our performing arts under threat—I did not have time to touch opera - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) English National Opera has been given a one-year funding reprieve, and we expect news of a longer-term - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) Our orchestras are world renowned, as are our opera companies, chamber music groups and highly skilled - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) the Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne’s touring opera and, of course, all the BBC orchestras in England - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) He and I were at a meeting yesterday with members of the company of the English National Opera. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Lord (CON - Woking) public and that wonderful opera company. - Speech Link