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Ask William Mason, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, about the future of opera on public television, and you get a one-word answer:
The prospect is not a pretty one for full-length opera on PBS. Shadowed by ever-diminishing ratings, opera telecasts are being chased even from the not-for-profit airwaves. This coming season, the most familiar, and once constant, "content providers"--the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, respectively--find their programming plans in disarray. After twenty-five years of televising three to four operas a year, the Met has only one scheduled for 2002-2003--a December 26 telecast of Fidelio, taped two years ago in the ...