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Festivals

Tartan-ing up the arts

11 August 2016

1:00 PM

11 August 2016

1:00 PM

Many years ago an arts spokesperson for the SNP launched an extraordinary attack on Scottish Opera, saying, ‘If push comes to shove, if I were arts minister and had to choose between the survival of Gaelic music and Scottish Opera, I would say rich people could always go to Salzburg for lieder and Sydney for opera.

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