There’s an excellent article in today’s Globe and Mail that looks at some key issues surrounding the recent commissioning by the Canadian Opera Company of a new work from Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor.
The Globe’s Robert Everett Green writes:
… it’s worth pondering the glacial tempo of the COC’s engagement with new creation. Imagine the Art Gallery of Ontario going 19 years without a single showing of any new Canadian art. It would be hard to think of a rationale for that scenario, although the COC, which receives about $4.5-million annually in public funding, is always quick to say that new work is too expensive and risky for regular consumption. But does that really need to be true, for the biggest opera company in the country?
Everett Green answers that question very elegantly.
You can read the full article here.
John Terauds