The other day one of the excellent character artists in opera wrote me that he was going into another business: he likes to perform in the United States, but many companies, both large and small, have stopped engaging mature performers and were using young artists instead. This could be much more a disaster to opera than it might seem. Great opera is not cheap, and since the birth of opera in … [Read more...]
Speight Jenkins on the art of Opera
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