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Are Opera Education Programs A Waste Of Time?

MUSIC Posted: March 20, 2014 2:39 pm

Considerable amounts of money, effort, resources and curriculum time are expended on these projects but to what end? Certainly not the development of new audiences and a future stock of those all-important punters who are freely prepared to part with good money to see a show. Thirty years into the “opera in education” mission and I have never encountered anyone who said to me: “I was turned on to opera by a school education programme.”

MUSIC Published: 03.20.14

Read the story in The Telegraph (UK) Published: 03.20.14

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