LUCIA CESARONI, OPERA CANADA CONTRIBUTOR AND PRINCIPAL AT CESARONI CONSULTING, REFLECTS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBILITIES FOR THE BUSINESS OF OPERA IN CANADA
COMING OF A GE in the performing arts in Toronto meant absorbing all flavours of past tense. Teachers, producers and agents discussed industry days gone by in grammatical shrugs and wistful past participles.
There were CBC symphonic recordings, the big-budget concerts at Harbourfront, Ontario Place, the tours—, they sighed, in an endless litany of backward glances. And then, the reality check—the money was gone, the CBC Symphony Orchestra disbanded (1964) and finally, the . Canadian Opera They told us it was all about money—gone, spent, defunded. They were wrong. There is so much wealth as yet untapped for the arts in Canada.
