San Francisco Opera, looking to cut its budget, has canceled its annual touring program – Western Opera Theatre. “When I looked at my budget, the most obvious thing to cut was (Opera Theater), because it’s a horrifically expensive thing that we always have lost money on.” The program was designed “to bring opera to remote and underserved locations,” but director Sheri Greenawald said the program had become “a dinosaur. In many ways, (Opera Theater) was no longer serving its initial mission, which was to take opera into the hinterlands – because as far as opera is concerned, there are very few hinterlands left.”