25 Mar 2010

End of the aria as opera falls on hard times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6e6b998-360e-11df-aa43-00144feabdc0.html

By Feargus O’Sullivan [Financial Times, 25 March 2010]

How does a ­notoriously expensive art form such as opera stay healthy when the ­economy itself is sick? This is the pressing question faced by opera companies across the world as funding shrinks and audiences dwindle.