I’m off-line most of today (and possibly tomorrow), so I’ll point you instead to a great interchange that’s happening among two other blogs in my neighborhood. Both Greg Sandow and Terry Teachout reference an Opera News piece about the bleak future of opera on PBS, and both have a different take. Here’s Sandow’s perspective:
What registers for [Terry Teachout] is PBS rejecting art, refusing to show challenging operas because they won’t attract a massive audience. For me what might be going on is different. I wonder if the problem isn’t that PBS demands a massive audience (though perhaps it might), but that opera draws a very tiny one‹so tiny, for works that aren’t widely known, that no responsible large-scale broadcaster could afford to show them.
Here are Terry’s comments, and here are Greg’s responses. What a great way to carry on a public conversation with depth and substance. Blog on, brave friends.
