Stuart Skelton interview

After Lindy Hume’s impassioned stance  last week on maintaining the integrity and relevance of opera in the 21st century, over 400 years after it emerged, the directors of the UK’s seven major opera houses give their views on why opera is still important and how they would introduce neophytes to the art form.  

A critically important piece from violinist Philippe Quint in Gramophone, who says  “Instead of encouragement towards making an effort, we caved into oversimplification and a frequent removal of independent thinking. We are programmed  to think in tweets and have given up fighting generation ADD. How soon will we be cutting Beethoven and Mozart symphonies to…