California’s Opera Pacific Cancels Season, May Disband

“Three days after its final performance of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Santa Ana-based Opera Pacific, [Orange] county’s only major opera company, announced Tuesday that it will cancel the remainder of its 2008-2009 season and will likely close down operations for good.” The lost productions include Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath and Strauss’s Salome starring Deborah Voigt.