“Wright of Derby” was thus known in his own time because he was not part of the London art establishment. He was a local man, a provincial, and his career was centred on the life and society of the English Midlands. But there was nothing marginal about that life. It was in those Midland counties that the Industrial Revolution was happening, one of the most world-changing sequences of events in human history.
The success of the International Opera Awards is intellectual rigour
At the awards ceremony in Munich this year, a jury dug deep into the purpose of opera and its impact on society.
