In a challenging time for live theater, an orgy of operas this weekend. Featuring short-run productions from ChicagoOpera, HaymarketOpera, chicagofringeop, and the final season for Third Eye Theatre Ensemble. | ✍️ DeannaIsaacs
), features work by a starry combination of creators, including composers John Luther Adams and Caroline Shaw, tackling existential challenges like climate change and the alienating effects of AI, and documentary-style playwright Anna Deavere Smith on gangs and guns in Chicago.
You wouldn’t know it from this bonanza, but for opera, as for most of the performing arts, these are tough times. Last week brought the announcement from the small but adventurousthat their next season will be their last. Founder and artistic director Rena Ahmed says that after ten years, the all-volunteer-run group “decided to celebrate what we’ve done and bring it to a close.” COVID was a contributing factor, she said.
That’s true across the board. According to Lyric Opera, its ticket revenue for opera productions was $11.6 million in fiscal 2022, compared to $18.5 million in pre-COVID 2019. General director Anthony Freud’s announcement last week of the schedule for next season started out by acknowledging that “opera is at a very challenging moment,” with “painful new economic realities.”
Nevertheless, as Freud told an audience of subscribers and supporters at the opera house, some important things were learned during the pandemic—among them, the need to be more “agile” in programming. For example, he said, no postseason musical was included in next year’s announced schedule. That doesn’t mean there won’t be one, Freud told me: there may or may not, depending on what becomes available.
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