GUARDIAN | Opinion
The Guardian view on the class crisis in the arts: the UK’s culture must not become the preserve of the elite
卫报对艺术阶级危机的观点：英国文化绝不能沦为精英专属
Actors rehearse at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff for a production of Romeo and Juliet.
2026-01-30 579词 中等
The metrics all reveal a dispiriting picture of a cultural landscape riven with inequality, exclusion and seemingly inexorable gentrification. Before 1960, according to one study, nearly half of opera singers came from working-class backgrounds. Today, as Adele Thomas, the recently appointed CEO of Welsh National Opera, has said, “you need a private income just to live”. Michael Sheen, who, like Thomas, comes from Port Talbot and whose inaugural production for the Welsh National Theatre opened this month, set up a programme to support writers from working-class and other underrepresented backgrounds.
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