What is in a name? A lot, if it is Glyndebourne, whose opera season is upon us again.
I doubt if many of the patrons will have to sing for their supper as they consume their Champagne picnics during the interval in the grounds next to Swan Lake. (Although, to be fair to Tchaikovsky, his music was, and still is, "music for everybody", to borrow a phrase from Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night).
Why didn't the Glyndebourne management, in Richard Rodgers' centenary year, put on a gala concert of his music or stage one of his musicals, many of which contain ballet sequences?
My guess is that all the time Glyndebourne is solvent, it will remain exclusive. If it falls upon hard times, like so many other British institutions, it will be forced to broaden its appeal.
Why wait?
-Tony Andrews, Lower Bevendean Avenue, Brighton
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