How Canadian director Michael Cavanagh planned his three-season Mozart cycle for San Francisco Opera GlobeArts
“The more I saw that my opera colleagues were excited, the more I knew I was on the right path,” Cavanagh told The Globe and Mail earlier this month. “When I saw how the idea was getting people buzzing, I felt it had a real possibility of happening.”Rigoletto
San Diego Opera nearly folded in 2015, but after a contentious changing of the guard among its board of directors, it has rebounded. Of course, opera in general has had its ups and downs over the past few decades. There was the great breastplate boom of the early 2000s, with the advent of surtitles, an innovation from the Canadian Opera Company that made opera more accessible. “It wasn’t baffling any more,” Cavanagh said of the system that projects lyrics and dialogue above the stage.
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