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GRAND OPERA IN BRITAIN ARRANGEMENTS FOR BROADCASTING IMPORTANT PROPOSAL By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Sydney “bun” Cable.) LONDON, November 18. In view of the recent controversy as to the effect of broadcasting upon the concert world, interest is added by the announcement that the new Boardcasting Corporation will consider a proposal to subsidise a British National Opera Company, which, in return, will agree to the broadcasting of excerpts of grand opera every week. An opera official states that tlie company would be unable to exist witnout a subsidy. Sir Thomas Beecham recently passed severe strictures on the effect or broadcasting on grand opera, and said ho was going to America, where there was a bette rappreciation of grand opera than in England. America, he was going to be the homo of opera.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 9
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133MAY BE SUBSIDISED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 9
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