A Night at the Opera
Opera is expensive and receives large public subsidies. Can that be justified and does it have a future? Peter Day visits top opera houses, a summer festival and pub performers.
Opera is an expensive artform that benefits from huge sums of public money. Can that be justified? Peter Day gets a range of operatic experiences - from top opera companies, to pub performers and a country house summer festival. The first opera was performed 400 years ago in Italy; how does the future look?
(Photo: The royal box at the Rome opera house)
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