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
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.