Is Opera Finding New Audiences?

“For years now, the nation’s various opera companies have been making strenuous efforts to attract a more diverse audience – with modern interpretations, cheap tickets, outdoorshows, cinematic screenings, “simulcasts” from the New York Met, club nights, cult artists, Damon Albarn’s Monkey, a presence on Facebook and YouTube, and even ticket offers in the Sun. It does seem to be working.” Really?

Slave To Harder Work

“This is a stunning moment in economic history: At one time we worked hard so that someday we (or our children) wouldn’t have to. Today, the more we earn, the more we work, since the opportunity cost of not working is all the greater (and since the higher we go, the more relatively deprived we feel).”