Opera wars

Is opera’s greatest fight really about avoiding a slide into cultural obsolescence? Or is it about how it might survive in an economic system obsessed with “the price of everything, and the value of nothing”?

The Chalamet effect

Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet provoked a critical and popular backlash when he dismissed opera and ballet as irrelevant but those art forms now face the harder task of keeping those audiences coming back.