What are the challenges that operas face today? From decreasing and aging viewer base, to limited funding, to competition from Netflix. Even in Italy.
Opera was my initial introduction to Italy. I vividly remember as a wide-eyed child in the 1980s’ China, worlds apart from Italy, on Sunday mornings, I woke up in birds chirping, gentle sunlight, and, opera songs, played by my parents from our cassette boombox. Fascinated and enchanted, I would close my eyes and imagine: the great concert halls, and the stories, lives, and cultures inside operas, week after week, month after month.
Years later I traveled to New York to study, where I visited Lincoln Center for the first time, home of the legendary Metropolitan Opera. Standing in the golden grand hall of Lincoln Center, the imagined stages in my childhood dream came alive in front of my eyes. Lincoln Center’s stage was as magnificent as the magic realm in my dream. I became a regular patron, and watched some of the greatest opera singers perform at the end of their careers.
Finally, one year, I visited La Scala in Milan, the cradle of many operas. Sitting in a box in Scala, the greatest operas I had listened to, together with my memory of different times, different people, and different continents, partly dream and partly reality, flashed back in front my eyes. Closing my eyes, I returned to those sweet, by-gone Sunday mornings in my childhood.I hope these great operas never end.
Second, the content of classical opera is traditional, and often resonates less with a modern audience. Some traditional content, originally developed a century ago in its own historical and cultural context, can even be consideredThird, from an operational perspective,. The capacity of opera theaters is large but limited. So is the frequency of performance. World-renowned star performers who can draw a large number of global followers are increasingly rare..
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