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Minister favours national opera company, in capital - The Irish Times - Wed, Sep 30, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0930/1224255502357.html
“I’m not so sure that amalgamating all three is the answer. I think Wexford has a very distinct image, a very distinct brand, and a very distinct, I suppose, access to the market internationally, where it has branded itself in a very different way to what a national opera company would be. So I’d be more inclined to look at leaving Wexford with its own mandate, and carry on in that regard, and have a national opera company out of maybe the other two which exist in Dublin.”
Remember this moment. You’re witnessing a Government minister showing a sounder grasp of the fundamentals of opera in Ireland than the Arts Council and its specialist adviser.
Michael Dervan on Minister Cullen's recent pronouncements on opera.