Almost every house in Europe runs a loss, it's been that way since the 1650s, subsidised by either the state or rich assholes, pays starvation wages even to the leads, somehow never makes the money back, rich assholes get tax write off...oh...look...all the production budget went to their set painting side business.
Sydney runs in the black, at the cost of exactly 1 interesting opera a year, the rest horrible stagings of Traviata, and firing the chorus for 3 months to put on a musical (which they have to re-audition for)
Almost every house in Europe runs a loss, it's been that way since the 1650s, subsidised by either the state or rich assholes, pays starvation wages even to the leads, somehow never makes the money back, rich assholes get tax write off...oh...look...all the production budget went to their set painting side business.
Sydney runs in the black, at the cost of exactly 1 interesting opera a year, the rest horrible stagings of Traviata, and firing the chorus for 3 months to put on a musical (which they have to re-audition for)
justifying my ignorance of opera because of the bourgeois practices and tradition of the houses:denguin: