It's a shame that opera remains stuck in the past | Letters

Edward Lambert calls for a renewal of the genre to attract new audiences. Plus a letter from Helen Rooker on funding cuts to Mid Wales Opera Your editorial (Thwarted in its mission to bring music to the people, 10 November) misses a vital point. The trouble with opera is that it is obsessed with a small canon almost exclusively from the 18th and 19th centuries. Exceptions are few and far between, while contemporary works are as rare as hen's teeth. And so opera isn't just perceived (mistakenly) ...