Thinking Big As The Money Gets Tight

Mark Swed observes that the giant city-wide festival that Los Angeles Opera, the Getty, LACMA and other institutions are staging around Wagner’s Ring in 2010 is risky in the current financial climate, but that “[t]aking bold artistic chances always opens new avenues.” Meanwhile, the teetering Orchestras of Pasadena and all-but-dead Opera Pacific “represent failures of imagination.”