The company has cut its Detour series of nontraditional works and the number of performances per show in a nod to its post-pandemic decline in attendance
San Diego Opera announced its 2023-24 season July 19 with a pared-down list of performances and productions that reflect the company’s efforts to adjust to its post-pandemic reality of declining ticket sales and rising expenses — a trend that opera and theater companies are experiencing nationwide.
San Diego Opera concluded its 2022-23 season in June with a deficit of just over $1.7 million. The loss would have been $300,000 higher if the company had not made the decision in April to cancel its season-closing production of the Detour series chamber opera “The Falling and the Rising.” The 2023-24 season budget is $8 million, down $2.5 million from last season. The reduction in the number of performances per opera production is a response not only to declining ticket sales but also to the rising cost of doing business. Before the pandemic, each performance of an opera at the San Diego Civic Theatre cost the company $325,000 to produce. Today, that has risen to $415,000.
“Since the unit cost is so expensive,” Bennett said, “it’s irresponsible to continue to produce more performances than demanded in our community right now.”
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