The British Arts Council has decided to bail out the English National Opera. “The decision was rushed through in less than 24 hours and comes as stalwarts of the ENO audience threatened to show their anger over the management’s cutbacks during tonight’s Coliseum premiere of Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina.” How much money will be coming the ENO’s way was not revealed, but the council said it would be enough to “stabilize” the company’s operations.
Tag: 01.23.03
A Bevy Of Bohemes
One night a few weeks from now, the stars will align and three productions of Pucinni’s “La Boheme” will take to the boards in New York City. That’s “more than 8200 seats to unload on a quiet, midweek evening” on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Oper and at New York City Opera. “Are that many New Yorkers going to be up for an evening of fake snow and chilly, Parisian garrets after five months of their own winter nastiness?”