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Bleak houses: Justin Davidson looks at some of the American opera companies hardest hit by today's economic crisis.
As the U.S. economy keeps hobbling and spluttering along like an angry drunk, it has knocked America's opera companies off balance, vandalized their plans and gouged holes in their budgets.
The Metropolitan Opera still may be able to follow doggedly through with plans solidified years ago, but smaller, nimbler and more fragile companies are ducking and scrambling to fend off the blows. A case in point: Boston Lyric Opera, which has scraped $2 million off its budget over the past two years, bringing it down to $6 million in 2003-04. Houston Grand Opera acted early and swiftly, slicing off 16 percent of its staff as soon as the prognostications grew dark two years ...
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