In Reply to: Les Troyens at the SF Opera - or why do directors try to ruin great works of art? posted by TGR on June 22, 2015 at 09:09:46:
As a response to the general question in your subject line, the directors have to be "progressive". At least here in Europe where the government bodies funding or financially supporting the houses withhold their grants otherwise. Traditional values are most decidely out.
The committees who judge the attainment of "progression" are, of course, peopled by trendy urbanites who are members of an elite. How they are appointed happens through arcane processes which may amount go a kind of social group nepotism.
Check the financial history of English National Opera or other UK performing arts institutions as examples.
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