首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Less than five years ago. Scottish Opera was trapped in a financial quagmire from which few thought it could recover. Today, how
Less than five years ago. Scottish Opera was trapped in a financial quagmire from which few thought it could recover. Today, how
admin
2019-04-17
6
问题
Less than five years ago. Scottish Opera was trapped in a financial quagmire from which few thought it could recover. Today, however, the national company seals its comeback by announcing its most wide-reaching program to date. In an interview with The Times, Alex Reedjik, general director of Scottish Opera, explained that a series of collaborations with other companies would enable it to maximize its output without
compromising its budget
. He admitted that the partnerships were borne of financial necessity, but argued they would allow the company to reach greater audiences than ever before. "Collaborations are the way forward," he said. "We have often done co-productions in the past but they are more important to us now to enable us to achieve all of our hopes. The problem is that sets are very expensive. If you can share those costs with another organization and not impact on artistic integrity, that is a positive, welcome and necessary thing.
Highlights of the 2009-10 season will include a new co-production with New Zealand Opera of Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers, and a joint venture with Opera North The Adventures of Mr. Broucek, by Leos Janacek, featuring a 40-strong choir singing Hussite hymns, along with bagpipes and an organ. An unashamedly Italianate season this Autumn begins with a revival of Giles Havergal’s popular 1994 production of The Elixir of Love. There will also be a revival of the Tony-award winning director Stewart Laing’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme.
The turnaround in the company’s fortunes is striking. In 2005, the year before Mr. Reedjik joined the organization, Scottish Opera was forced to make half of its staff, including the entire chorus , redundant and abandon its main-scale productions for a season after accumulating debts of a-round £4.5 million. The company’s core grant, which at that time came from the Scottish Arts Council(it is now funded directly by the government)had not risen for several years. However, it had also haemorrhaged funds by staging the hugely expensive Ring Cycle, and according to some critics , had been overspending on props, with rumors of cast members wearing £ 300 designer shoes.
A £ 7 million rescue package put together by the then Labor-led Scottish Executive saved the company from going dark on a permanent basis, but
the ease with which it almost went under forced a rethink of priorities
. While the company continues to stage several major productions each season, it has also introduced smaller touring works—the acclaimed Five: 15 series—which pairs leading writers with composers to create 15-minute chamber pieces that could be developed into longer productions. The aim, says Mr. Reedjik, is to put on as much opera in Scotland as possible without breaking the bank. So far the strategy seems to be working, with audiences averaging at around 95 ,000 people in the past three years, a rise of almost 50 per cent compared with 2004 -05, the season before the company went dark. "What we are trying to do now is live within our means and raise as much as possible from philanthropic means," said Mr. Reedjik. " We seemed to have dropped out of the news for dumb stuff—now we’re in the news for our interesting work. "
It can be inferred from the last sentence in Paragraph 1 that______.
选项
A、the quality of artistic performances may be worsened for lack of necessary funding
B、sharing the cost of sets can help the Scottish Opera out of financial difficulty
C、the series of collaborations with other companies have maximized the Scottish Opera’s output
D、it’s important for audience to hold a positive view on such co-productions
答案
A
解析
第一段最后一句提到“如果你能和其它组织分担费用,不影响艺术整体感,这是很好、很必要的事情。”由此我们可以推测资金的缺乏,会影响演出质量,因此选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/mIra777K
本试题收录于:
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
AccordingtotheUnitedStatesConstitution,thelegislativepowerisinvestedin().
PopstarstodayenjoyastyleoflivingwhichwasoncetheprerogativeonlyofRoyalty.Wherevertheygo,peopleturnoutinthe
Readthefollowingquoteandwriteanarticleofabout400wordslongforanewspapertoarguefororagainsttheauthor’sopini
OfallthecatastrophesthatcouldbefallAmericaincomingyears,abigterroristattack,perhapsevenbiggerthanthoseonSep
Whenthetelevisionisgood,nothing—notthetheater,notthemagazines,ornewspapers—nothingisbetter.Butwhentelevisionis
TheRomanlanguageservedasthefirstmodelforansweringthequestion.EventosomeonewithnoknowledgeofLatin,thesimilar
Thetemperatureofthesunisover5,000degreesFahrenheitatthesurface,butitrisestoperhapsmorethan16milliondegree
Localgovernmentsassumehigh-speedrailwaycanchangetheexistingregionaleconomicpatternsofcitiesbringneweconomicbene
Animportantpointinthedevelopmentofagovernmentalagencyisthecodificationofitscontrollingpractices.Thestudyofla
Animportantpointinthedevelopmentofagovernmentalagencyisthecodificationofitscontrollingpractices.Thestudyofla
随机试题
以下哪个不是孤独症的高危因素
监理单位接受建设单位委托对工程项目实施全过程监理时,需要在设计准备阶段( )。
会计科目按其所()不同,分为总分类科目和明细分类科目。
某公司经营规模迅速扩张,但由于人员储备不足,造成很多重要岗位无人填补,这说明该公司的()工作没有做好。(2008年真题)
甲股份有限公司(以下简称“甲公司”)为一家从事贵金属进口、加工生产及相关产品销售的企业,其2×15年发生了下列交易或事项:(1)为促进产品销售,甲公司于2×15年推出贵金属产品以旧换新业务。甲公司在销售所生产的黄金饰品时,承诺客户在购买后任一时点,若
中华人民共和国16周岁以上的公民普通护照有效期一般为()年。
(1)新来的年轻鸬鹚突然集体罢工,不肯下海(2)老鸬鹚因为老得不能出海了,被杀掉炖汤(3)渔夫百思不得其解,抱怨自己待它们不薄(4)一群鸬鹚,辛辛苦苦跟着一位渔夫十几年(5)因为老了,还不落个老鸬鹚一样的下场?
窗体上有1个名称为Commandl的命令按钮,事件过程如下:PrivateSubCommandl_Click()DimhumAsInteger,xAsIntegernum:Val(InputBox(“请输入一个正整数”))Selec
Whyisthewomancalling?
Cultureisactivityofthought,andreceptivenesstobeautyandhumanefeeling.【1】ofinformationhavenothingtodowithit.Am
最新回复
(
0
)