Mike Gibb, Operabase's Blog (3)

[Passing on this email from Claire Fox, Institute of Ideas]



In the run-up to this year’s Battle of Ideas festival weekend on 30 October and 31 October, an exciting programme of Satellite Events around the country will showcase free thinking on everything from the nature of genius to public health, from the state of secularism to the myth of racist kids. I thought you may be particularly… Continue

There's been much discussion in the UK over the possible loss of artistic freedoms in return for private funding. Arts companies in the US have other, and bigger, problems. My own particular area of interest is opera, and the last two years have been particularly harsh in the US -- a dozen companies (with about 400 years of operating history between them) have gone bankrupt in the last two years, and the remainder have reduced the numbers of productions, shortened seasons, deferred new world… Continue

There have been several occasions recently where the same stories were posted to both the blog and the forum parts of this site, with consequent splitting of the follow-up responses. The two look somewhat the same but work rather differently.



Blogs. Comments can only be added to the end of the conversation. The front page shows blog posts by their creation date, so entries will inevitably vanish from the front page after a few days. Blogs are… Continue