Tom Luce

Arts Council England has proposed to increase its funding to non-London locations and thus reduce the London-based recipients’ support.

In the last nearly four decades I have seen all Wagner’s regularly performed operas at Seattle Opera.

The beloved Proms concerts this year invite back audiences and have expanded the stage to accommodate full-size orchestras. Bravo!

The British briefings on the pandemic come across as disciplined and professional with punctual timing, good clarity, reasonable brevity, and no impassioned hostility or displays of temperament. Certainly none of the speakers – even those suitably professionally qualified- would ever recommend to the public speculative but un-researched cures for the virus.