Did diversity kill opera in Philadelphia?

A right-wing rant on the Federalist media site alleges that equality and diversity policies were the death knell for Philly’s progressive opoera company.

It’s a knee-jerk rant…. but it’s not entirely wrong about the money drying up:

…By dedicating classic arts companies to woke programming and ideology, they thought they had a path to relevance that would bring them larger and younger audiences as well as the funding they needed to continue operating.

But they were wrong. And the proof of their folly has just been delivered in the failure of Opera Philadelphia, the company that has been most invested in the concept that going woke would save classical music….

More here.