Summary
THE PRESSURE continues to mount on Martin Smith, embattled chairman of the ENO.
A group of parliamentarians led by Labour MP Rob Morris has tabled the following motion: "That this House is shocked at reports that the English National Opera (ENO) has received Pounds 150 million of state subsidy in the last 10 years, continues to receive Pounds 16 million a year of taxpayers' money, has recently spent Pounds 40 million on refurbishment of its London Coliseum building, which is now falling apart, has had two Government rescue packages in the last eight years totalling Pounds 19.2 million and yet is still in crisis, with small audiences meaning that box-office takings are little more than 25 per cent of its annual expenditure, notes that the ENO is based in London, as is the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden; and so calls on the Government and the Arts Council to cease forthwith all subsidies of the extravagant and failed ENO, and instead spend the money on other arts organisations around the country."See the full content of this document
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Eno Takes a Beating ; Londoner's Diary
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