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Early music draws classical, folk, opera, and choral music lovers, all of which Boston has in abundance...
...budget for a biennial festival is about $2.5 million. The opera is just about $1 million, about $950,000,” she says. “About half of your budget is made up of ticket sales…so just imagine the amount of money that needs to be raised, and 90% of that will be from individual giving.” Still, Fay says the results are often pleasantly surprising...
...concert series, another challenge is putting on the biennial festival itself. Its central component is the production and performance of a rare baroque opera masterpiece...
...most years, the opera is an old one that has not been performed for hundreds of years. But in June 2005, BEMF will present the world premiere of a recently rediscovered opera, Boris Goudenow by Johann Mattheson...
...does.'" Even Landesman acknowledges the enormous energy and patience needed to nail the role. "Casting Max," he says, "is a constant problem." Bringing The Producers to London also raises the question of whether hit musicals can survive the trip across the Atlantic. "Since Cats and Phantom of the Opera, everyone expects a successful musical to replicate itself around the world," says Meehan. "But those shows don't depend on the star like we do. Nobody knows who's playing the Phantom in New York, but potential audiences care who's playing Max." Case in point: the day the London theater...