Paris Opera takes $6 million budget cut
OperaThe Ministry of Culture has trimmed 6 million euros from the Opera de Paris, it was made known today. The cut is around three percent of total spending at the national opera house.
The ministry has been ordered to find 204.3 million euros in savings ahead of the summer Olympics.
I guess Salonen won’t be considering taking the Paris Opera job then.
That’s good news, because he doesn’t know many poet scores well.
The headline is in US dollars but the story says Euros. Six million Euros = $6,498,288
Somebody doesn’t know how to use a character map to make the Euro sign! Heaven knows, the € takes a bit of finding.
Tha Arnault’s can write a quick check and feel no pain.
Good ! The Paris Opera is a bottomles pit for public money with strikes every week. They will have to learn to earn money by themselves.
Have you ever considered that there are strikes precisely because of such treatment?? Everything in the arts is subsidized. If you do not understand that, and aren’t willing to support it, then you do not deserve to listen to classical music or go to exhibitions.
Its subsidy certainly makes the Royal Opera House look like poor relations.
The fact is, opera is not a priority in today’s messed up world. All companies are hurting and cutting back. Opera is dying, and stupid productions by terrible directors plus a lack of star singers, isn’t helping.
Sell the gold tractor tires.
Even with Dudamel’s salary back, they still need to save money?!!
At least they got rid of the overrated fraud.
“God bless public funding like we have in Europe! Unlike Americans we understand and accept that subsidies to maintain classical music establishments are part of our “social/cultural pact” that holds society together.”
And yes, I am laughing hard.
Your great public funding isn’t as strong as it used to be. And the leading European houses are staging Euro-trash productions all the time … by the way, thank you all for creating the genre Euro-trash.
Precisely so. As you could see, what I wrote is in quote. I was laughing hard at the smugness of a kraut who lectured me the exact words in a different post on this site.
I’m afraid Madame la ministre de la culture Rachida Dati much prefers Aka Nakyamura to opera.
People prefer and prioritize sports and movies. Nobody but the one % care (s) about opera. It’s a dying art form.