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Are we sponsoring arias now? If nobody sponsors it do they just cut it from the opera?

Just heard the news about the great Sly Stone. One of the most influential figures in modern music. And one of the most unique. Revisiting my 2023 interview with him here. thetimes.com/article/d7d26c…

Someone looking embarrassingly out of place on this list ... pretty sure it's Thucydides

love being told how dangerous it is to live in London by people who come here once a year to watch a Lloyd Webber show

AI, the early years

Er, I'm glad the spending review says it provides "a significant increase in funding for the creative industries as one of the government’s eight growth driving sectors" just wish that was borne out by the table directly above that statement

So a budget cut for the DCMS in Rachel’s spending review, and the American tech giants given a free pass to ignore UK copyright laws so their AI bots can steal the output of our creative industries as they like. Lucky the Labour Gov is so supportive of British culture, isn’t it?

Late to this. Good piece

Very pleased that our theatre newsletter picked up a gong in The Publisher Newsletter Awards. thetimes.com/article/84a2c4…

Klaus Makela’s Berlioz seems a little far from Fantastique thetimes.com/article/4235d0…

Can I introduce you to Waltraud Meier DVDs

I have been thinking of my friends and colleagues in the #Chorus at WNO this week, who have been forced to re-audition for their jobs. They will hear next week which 2 will be served their notice to exit the company, along with the 8 already departed. Absolutely grim. #SaveWNO

Grange Park now announces its Ring Cycle will be performed by ...the ENO orchestra. Consider the Rubicon crossed: ENO, a (still) publicly funded company, abandoned its own Ring Cycle. Now to keep the wolf from its door it's being paid to perform the Ring in a Surrey festival.

Useful if anyone needs to book JK’s lookalike 👇🏽

Neil Fisher That was my first thought too! While I’m glad they won’t starve, wouldn’t it be lovely if they could be playing it where thousands more people could be hearing it for far lower ticket prices?

Well this is excellent thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Again, my first thought was ‘gonna have to be pretty punchy to best Solti or Krauss”

On this day in 1994, Jesse met Céline on a train in Budapest.

I won’t be shedding tears for Iranian State TV, home of the televised forced confession and an enemy to journalism