Can opera survive in an era of shrinking budgets and aging audiences?
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Appearing in this month's edition of Opera News are a few of opera's "next wave" of fresh faces (from left): Kate Lindsey, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Luca Pisaroni, Ailyn Perez and Michael Christie.
Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 10:00 am
Last week we asked you to do some musical soul-searching — and boy, did we get responses. In the first day, 250 people commented on the blog post "You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You." Several thousand more comments have since rolled in via social media.
Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 10:07 am
Poor Jules Massenet. How could the most successful French opera composer of his generation fall so far out of fashion? Perhaps the new 23-CD box set of Massenet's music, marking the 100th anniversary of his death (yesterday), holds some clues.
