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English National Opera to move to Manchester after funding row
The Guardian
|December 06, 2023
English National Opera has chosen Greater Manchester as its future home, a year after it was told to move its base out of London.
The company had a shortlist of five cities it was considering, with Manchester, the biggest city in Europe without a resident opera company, always the favourite. Also in the running were Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham.
The announcement was made a year after Arts Council England (ACE) removed ENO from the national portfolio and said future funding would depend on moving outside London.
The decision was condemned as "cultural vandalism" by Melvyn Bragg and an "ill-thought-through idea" by Richard Mantle, then the general manager of the Leeds-based Opera North. ACE later agreed a partial funding reprieve and gave ENO until 2029 to relocate.
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