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Carley Defranco performs in MassOpera’s Social DistanSing
Carley Defranco performs in MassOpera’s Social DistanSing (photo: Benjamin Rose)
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Fall 2021
Article Published: 20 Oct 2021

Against the Odds

American opera has suffered enormous hardships since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced an immediate termination of live performances and normal operations. Nonetheless, artists and organizations responded to the crisis with extraordinary ingenuity, devising new ways of presenting opera and using the field’s extraordinary resources to keep the art form alive.

This article was published in the Fall 2021 issue of Opera America Magazine.

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