The Orlando Opera Company has announced that it will be no more as of May 1. We join with the Orlando arts community in mourning the loss, but I retain hope. We lived through the demise, many years ago, of the Florida Symphony Orchestra, and now we have the great Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in its place. True, it was a long comeback, and we lost several fine musicians when the FSO closed its doors, but good music is too important to stay down for the count.
Banks are changing, newspapers are changing, and so is the nonprofit arts community....There is an audience for opera in Central Florida. We need to figure out how to serve that audience. It’s an art form that has survived for hundreds of years, and we know it will survive now.
— Margot Knight, president and CEO of United Arts of Central Florida
