In America today there is a strange anomaly: more and more young men and women studying to become opera singers and a decline in subscribers to opera companies. I specify subscribers even though single-ticket buyers are down, too, because opera companies live off of the committed subscriber. Though the recession is over, most company's bottom lines do not look healthy, yet the flood of singers … [Read more...]
Speight Jenkins on the art of Opera
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