What an impressive audience. Tickets to this gig cost more than tickets to the opera.
Novices are welcome as long as they enter their probation willingly.
They are lead to share the conversion, away from the rabble. And like any great church there will be obsessive sects within it believing in one God or many - engaged in internecine struggles in defense of their ritualistic belief. Or should we arts professionals be zealots, piously championing our cause, converting our heathen brethren. I ve been asked to talk about opera in particular, not the arts in general. I m happy to, because I think what we do at the opera company matters, really matters to our community.