Montreal Opera was once a vibrant company on the rise, but these days, it’s happy even to still exist. “Money does make the opera world go round, and there is definitely not enough of it in the Montreal opera company coffers. The accumulated deficit is $1.95 million, generated over two years — quite a sum for a company that spent only $6.9 million in 2005-2006… There is no artistic director, Bernard Labadie having submitted his resignation in June, more or less on the grounds that in such an atmosphere there were no serious artistic decisions to be made… So what went wrong?”