Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) Channel 4 and I would not have put pressure on Arts Council England to strangle the English National Opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) , London will have just one major opera company, the Royal Opera House, which offers a different opera - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Anybody who has worked in an opera house—I was on the board of the Royal Opera House and have written - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) a new generation of audiences, who he claims want“opera … presented in new ways: opera in car parks, - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) funding, and there are many new opera companies joining, including Opera Up Close and Pegasus Opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (LAB - Life peer) Not everybody needs opera, but everyone should have the chance to experience opera, theatre, dance, visual - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) Through Pimlico Opera, she also takes opera into prisons, where it has an extraordinary effect on the - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) Mention has been made, lavish mention, of the opera as an art form and of lavish places where opera has - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) touring opera and the Royal Opera House. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) There are many new joiners such as Opera Up Close and Pegasus Opera Company based in Brixton, which I - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) The English National Opera is approaching its 100th anniversary. - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) As it happens, other cuts elsewhere to Welsh National Opera have meant that Liverpool will get less opera - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Organisations such as the English Touring Opera and Birmingham Opera Company will receive increased funding - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) With the axe looming over the English National Opera and the Donmar Warehouse—both national attractions - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) For example, three institutions that receive the most funding in the portfolio are the Royal Opera House - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) We would certainly encourage the Arts Council and the English National Opera to continue the dialogue - Speech Link
4: Julian Knight (CON - Solihull) Council funding has been too London-centric for too long¸ partly due to the subsidies to the Royal Opera - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) I will concentrate on English National Opera. - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) We have a brilliant Opera North organisation. What about the west country? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I pay tribute to Dr Harry Brünjes, who pioneered the Breathe programme at the English National Opera, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) The revolving door of Ministers, the seemingly endless soap opera, the unedifying sight of Conservative - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) This is interesting; is there a hidden message in them all being opera companies? - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Opera and the Birmingham Opera Company, as well as new joiners to the portfolio, OperaUpClose and the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) both come from good working-class stock and we both rather enjoy a trip to Glyndebourne to see the opera - Speech Link