London’s English National Opera has had to start canceling performances after the company’s chorus voted to strike. Chrous members are protesting a plan to lay off a third of their number. “The savings they will make by making 20 choristers redundant for the current season will be as little as £120,000, because they will have to hire freelancers to make up the numbers. We do not believe that £120,000 is a make or break sum for an organisation that has an annual turnover of more than £30m.”