Memo to Peter Gelb:
Don’t read the Opera America survey of 11,000 new operagoers over four seasons and 36 US opera companies.
It will only prove you wrong and we know you hate to be wrong.
The key finding is this: Most New-to-Opera attenders initially come for a new “experience,” and they tend to stick to the classics.
Fancy that.
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From a guest essay by Jonathan Biss in the NY Times: In 2015, when I broke my arm and needed to cancel several weeks of concerts, no one suggested to me that I shouldn’t tell […]
The newly remastered Carnegie Hall concert of December 8, 1957. Unbelievably intense. The post Watch: Jussi Björling comemmorates Jean Sibelius appeared first on Slippedisc.
David Zinman, former music director of the Baltimore Symphony and Tonhalle Zurich, has lost his beloved wife. He writes: It is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing of dear Mary She was a […]
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