Andrew Marr has slammed the decision to slash the English National Opera's funding as 'wanton, idiotic vandalism', as the company continues to fight for its future
The ENO are normally given £12.6 million annually by the Arts Council, but this has been cut to £17 million over the next three years.
Speaking on Wednesday's Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC, the presenter said that ENO "has done more than anyone to break down the class barriers around opera".Andrew said: "I am, on the whole, against vandalism, even when it's perpetrated by well-spoken are privately educated people wearing well-cut suits. and from my perspective, the decision by the Arts Council for England, to effectively destroy English National Opera is wanton, idiotic vandalism.
"This is a company which has done more than anyone to break down the class barriers around opera, to make good music, something played and sung by people from working class backgrounds, and enjoyed by people of all incomes. "It is being rewarded by having most of its money taken away and being ordered out of its home theatre, one of the most beautiful and largest such buildings anywhere in Britain.
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