Serious crisis in opera; just one more of many

Nobody talks about it or wants to talk about it publicly, but opera is going through a serious crisis from which it does not know how to emerge. Artistic directors hope for better times and that the box office will come back more often. But the truth is that alarm bells are already ringing everywhere. 

For example, the Bavarian State Opera, which is committed to more than Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart or Richard Wagner, has had to postpone the premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's "Matsukaze" for at least a year, due to the change in general conditions and the associated budgetary risk.