It was never a good idea to give the Coliseum to English National Opera – the site is too big, too unwieldy, too expensive to run, and too close to Covent Garden. It’s time for a change of direction and a change of location, argues Stephen Moss.
David Mellor has this week issued a mea culpa. Not for anything that may or may not have happened when he was “minister for fun” in the dark days of the Major government in the 1990s. But for doing something that at the time he was convinced would make “a major contribution to the cultural life of the nation” - convincing the prime minister to buy the Coliseum, the vast theatre in London’s St Martin’s Lane, for the English National Opera... Keep reading on the Guardian
David Mellor has this week issued a mea culpa. Not for anything that may or may not have happened when he was “minister for fun” in the dark days of the Major government in the 1990s. But for doing something that at the time he was convinced would make “a major contribution to the cultural life of the nation” - convincing the prime minister to buy the Coliseum, the vast theatre in London’s St Martin’s Lane, for the English National Opera... Keep reading on the Guardian