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Opera Isn’t In Trouble, It’s Just In An Awkward Phase

MUSIC Posted: June 30, 2014 10:55 pm

“Opera ain’t what it used to be. More to the point, opera companies aren’t what they used to be. The art form is not standing still. It’s growing, uncontrollably, by leaps and messy bounds,” writes Mark Swed – who argues that the problems at U.S. opera’s flagship, the Met, are more about the Met than the art form, and that the controversy over The Death of Klinghoffer demonstrates opera’s innate power.

MUSIC Published: 06.27.14

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 06.27.14

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