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At the end of the Second World War, the great economist Maynard Keynes called for public money to be poured into an Arts Council and Royal Opera House, as a means to revive our national fortunes and spirit through the English culture and language. At a time when bread was being rationed and London was a bombsite, money was found to create an opera and ballet company.
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At the end of the Second World War, the great economist Maynard Keynes called for public money to be poured into an Arts Council and Royal Opera House, as a means to revive our national fortunes and spirit through the English culture and language. At a time when bread was being rationed and London was a bombsite, money was found to create an opera and ballet company.
Half a century later, with the country at its peak of prosperity, the Royal Opera House was pushed to the brink of bankruptcy. England's cultural renaissance was over and multiculturalism, political correctness and European integration were throttling the very notion of Englishness. What went wrong?
Covent Garden, The Untold Story relates, through the rise and fall of the Royal Opera House, the fruitless struggle to turn England into a cultural nation. Norman Lebrecht reports at vivid firsthand the unvarnished history of a vital institution which was designed to define a nation -- and spectacularly failed.
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