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Perhaps the most striking and wide reaching initiative on show was ENO Breathe, the
program set up for sufferers of long-Covid to help with breathing and anxiety, and now
rolled out to 50 NHS Trusts across the UK. All the people involved in its creation were
rightly acknowledged here, praising a program which has benefited from the expertise of
opera singers and colleagues at Imperial College Healthcare:

It was indeed a night to acknowledge the tireless work of those behind the scenes, who
effectively enable their organisations or teams to give the appearance of a swan while they
work feverishly beneath the surface. Bassoonist Ashby Mayes is a prime example. He gave
a bubbly performance of Weber’s Rondo Ongarese with pianist Kumi Matsuo, but then
violinist Nicola Benedetti revealed his ‘other’ vocation as technology inventor and
troubleshooter as part of The Benedetti Foundation’s online work.