A five-part series in which former
Radio 3 controller John Drummond takes a critical look at the state of opera in Britain since 1945.
1:A Place for Opera. Interviews with the Earl of Harewood and Sir John
Tooley - both former administrators of London's two world-class opera houses - about the postwar formation and consolidation of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the revitalisation of Sadler's Wells and its metamorphosis into English
National Opera, and the setting of standards at Glyndebourne. Producer Martin Cotton