Brass bands have been losing out to opera as the middle class lobby sways funding for middle class luvvies, a Conservative MP said. Opera is in line to receive £347.4 million during the five years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Figures from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) reveal that over £226 million was allocated to opera ...

The stereotype that brass bands are “working class” and only from Yorkshire has been challenged after figures revealed that the Government spent seven times more on opera than brass bands in recent ...

Government funding for opera has outstripped support for brass bands by a factor of seven in recent years, sparking accusations of "snobbishness" and a "southern and metropolitan bias" in arts funding ...