San Francisco Cancels Two Operas

SAN FRANCISCO, California (SF Opera Website) - Facing a $7.7 million budget deficit, the San Francisco Opera has canceled plans for two of next season's costlier productions.
Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq d'Or" was scrapped, and will be replaced by a revival of Mozart's "Magic Flute." A planned production of Weber's "Der Freischutz" has been canceled outright.
The two scrapped productions "would have needed to be transported here from Europe and both would have required adjustments for us to present them in the War Memorial," the opera's General Director Pamela Rosenberg said.
The company estimated the decision will save $2 million.

Next season still includes Virgil Thomson's "The Mother of Us All," Ferruccio Busoni's "Doktor Faust," Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen" and Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk."