July 3rd, 2015

July 3, 2015By Interlude0 Comments

Enduring: Where the Wild Things Are being performed in Aldeburgh, in 2012
Photo: Eamonn McCabe/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Lebrecht Music & Arts

CGI blockbusters and brain-numbing video games are damaging our children’s imaginations and impoverishing their lives. Can opera help?

Opera meant nothing in the educational world of my youth – like X-rated films and dry martini, it was something reserved for adults only.

That worked just fine for me; I was left to make my own discovery without parents or teachers breathing down my neck and making me feel that opera was something that I should like. Full story.

Rupert Christiansen (The Telegraph) / June 21, 2015

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