Letter: Funding opera

Sir: David Cloke (Letters, 7 November) asserts that we will all be poorer as a result of the new proposals for the Royal Opera House. He should be more careful in making such sweeping generalisations.

The changes will make not the slightest difference to my life nor to the lives of the vast majority of the population who, like me, have no interest in opera but whose taxes have provided hundreds of millions of pounds in subsidy to it over the years.

With the NHS and education desperately short of funds, it is time this was stopped.

PETER WHITE

London NW1