LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Jeremy Isaacs on Royal Opera House cuts

Genre

Interview

TX Date

11 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:26

Description

Rodney Bennett interviews Jeremy Isaacs, Director-General of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Royal Opera House expects to lose over a million pounds in the current financial year and it blames cuts in its grant from the Arts Council. The interview coincides with the release of the annual report, which reveals that money taken at the box office exceeds that given in subsidy. Isaacs says the grant is simply not enough to meet the opera company’s needs.

Contributors

Rodney Bennett; Jeremy Isaacs

Keywords

Budgets; London; Opera; UK; Great Britain; Covent Garden; Royal Opera House; Grants; Finance; Arts; Theatres; Arts Council; Opera houses; Arts administration

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