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City, arts leaders should fight to keep Opera Boston alive
12-29-2011 – Boston Globe Editorial

AN OPERA company in distress might be excused for over-dramatizing its plight in the hopes of finding a financial rescuer. But with barely a whimper, Opera Boston - the city’s second largest opera company - announced last week that it was closing its doors as if it were nothing more than the corner sub shop.