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The company has enjoyed strong reviews for its autumn season – revivals of an acclaimed staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes conducted by Brabbins, and Cal McCrystal’s “joyous” production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. In November 2022, the troubled company was back in ACE’s crosshairs when it found itself removed from the National Portfolio and was told that its funding was to go completely unless it moved out of London.Ī huge public outcry, petitions and questions in parliament followed, and in July it was announced that extra money and more time had been found for the transition to a new home, and that a new business model would allow the company to deliver a substantial opera season every year in London. He is the company’s second successive music director to resign over proposed cuts and job losses: in March 2016 Mark Wigglesworth, after less than a year in post, tendered his resignation in protest at swingeing cuts deemed necessary after a loss of 29% (or £5m) of the company’s Arts Council funding. The 64-year-old Brabbins has been ENO’s music director since October 2016. Martyn Brabbins in the pit during tech rehearsals for a production of Wagner’s The Valkyrie for ENO in 2021. “I urge ACE to reassess this situation and recognise the devastating implications their funding decisions will have on the lives of individual musicians, as well as the reputation of the UK on the international stage.” “This is a plan of managed decline, rather than an attempt to rebuild the company and maintain the world-class artistic output for which ENO is rightly famed.

“Although making cuts has been necessitated by Arts Council England’s interference in the company’s future, the proposed changes would drive a coach and horses through the artistic integrity of the whole of ENO as a performing company, while also singularly failing to protect our musicians’ livelihoods. Universal Production Music music catalog crafted for video and media use.

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The union plans to reject the proposals & fight to keep our members at in full time jobs, on full time pay - Musicians' Union October 13, 2023

Members at English National Opera have learned that the company plans to axe 19 posts & employ the remaining musicians on part time contracts

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