Surviving Classical Music

Asitha Tennekoon


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Today Andrew talks with Sri Lankan-born, Toronto-based performer Asitha Tennekoon, co-founder of Amplified Opera, about the outdated pay structures for North American opera singers, as well as his thoughts on the response of major opera companies towards the protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
http://www.wandelprobe.com/
https://www.amplifiedopera.com/asitha-tennekoon



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Reckoning with our past | Solidarity and responsibility for our future
By Alexander Neef, General Director, Canadian Opera Company

https://www.coc.ca/COC-news1?EntryID=21984

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The Metropolitan Opera

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/a-message-to-our-audience/

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