Courtesy of Austin Opera
By the summer of 2020, Austin Opera knew that the first two productions of its 2020-21 season – Mozart's classic
The Marriage of Figaro and Mason Bates' new American opera
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs – would be artistic victims of the pandemic. (Not to worry, both will be produced in 2021-22.) But when it came to the third production, Puccini's powerhouse
Tosca, "we were stubborn," says AO general director and CEO Annie Burridge. "We were determined to find a way to do as much of the production as we could for as many people as we could."