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The many pathways of love will be explored in a special series of concerts at The Gallery in Green Acres next month. Wexford pianist and répétiteur Rebecca Warren will be joined by soprano Hannah O’Brien for Les chemins de l’amour, an evening of opera arias featuring the works of Dvorák, Mozart, Puccini and the songs of Poulenc, Stanford and Strauss.
San Diego Opera’s most recent production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni is an example of how opera companies hope to attract younger audiences while coping with rising costs and smaller budgets. The pandemic hasn’t been kind to the arts. The National Endowment for the Arts has reported that stage performances joined oil drilling/exploration and air transportation “as the steepest-declining areas of the U.S. economy in 2020.” And opera, which had already been experiencing shrinking audiences, was the hardest hit of all the arts. Smaller companies are struggling to stay in business. Even New York’s Metropolitan Opera had to dip into its reserves this season for $40 Million.