Opera being a delightfully paradoxical medium, this whole debacle left me in an upbeat mood.
One of Scotland's best-known authors is to write the words for a work being staged by Scottish Opera.
Mr Kaiser has been clever as well as lucky in being able to publicise the Royal Opera House's more positive efforts.
He also needed to find directors willing to face the steep challenges inherent to opera, chief among them being time constraints.
He directed his first opera in 1974, despite being unable to read music and claiming never to have even seen one.
So far, City Opera shows little evidence of being rejuvenated.
She became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program, working her way up from singing small roles to being offered leading roles with the MET and many of the world's great opera houses.
You might be tempted to say that the Big Ten is the Susan Lucci of presidential politics -- except that the soap opera actress, after years of being passed over, finally was awarded an Emmy.
Sure, it might now be the internet limitations which make Opera popular in Belarus, instead of it being the computers themselves that motivated my little business.
Whether this development has been successful is a matter for the critics, who have blasted some of the opera productions led by theater directors (sometimes for not being adventurous enough).
Given the Met's repertory system, there is a different opera onstage almost every night and a different one being rehearsed onstage during the day.
All this being said, there's one place where attention-trolling is working: the opera.
Since being performed at Bregenz, Szymanowski's operas have been performed by the English National Opera in London and by companies in Houston, New York, Chicago, France, Poland and Germany.
Jo says she was destined to be an opera singer before she was even born, as her mother had dreamed of being a singer herself and had been thwarted by political upheaval.
Dallas, fearful of being outdone by Houston's top-notch Wortham arts centre, will soon have a spanking new opera house and a big theatre complex.
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