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16 June 2023

Liverpool makes case for English National

Opera

City leaders say that among areas shortlisted for English National Opera
relocation, it is the only one currently lacking any opera provision and call for
transparency in decision-making process.

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CassielMx

Political leaders in Liverpool have written to government highlighting the lack of exisiting
opera provision in the city as it bids to become the new home for English National Opera
(ENO).

A letter sent by city leaders to Arts Minister Lord Parkinson said that, as a Unesco City of Music
and home to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Liverpool Institute of Performing
Arts, the city "goes hand in glove with the aims of the ENO and its drive to take opera to the
masses".