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San Diego Opera’s most recent production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni is an example of how opera companies hope to attract younger audiences while coping with rising costs and smaller budgets. The pandemic hasn’t been kind to the arts. The National Endowment for the Arts has reported that stage performances joined oil drilling/exploration and air transportation “as the steepest-declining areas of the U.S. economy in 2020.” And opera, which had already been experiencing shrinking audiences, was the hardest hit of all the arts. Smaller companies are struggling to stay in business. Even New...

The new production by director-costume designer Kyle Lang puts the orchestra onstage and the singers at the stage edge.

Director Kyle Lang, who recently moved to San Diego full-time, said he's excited to tell Mozart's dark classic in a fresh way

Berkshire Opera Festival's mainstage production opens Aug. 26 at the Colonial Theatre.