On the slow death of opera

Manuela Hoelterhoff on ChevronTexaco's shameful decision to stop funding the Met's Saturday afternoon broadcasts.

The program costs approximately $7 million a year -- a lot of money, to be sure, but chump change for a company that recorded revenues of $92 billion last year. And when you consider that their CEO made $6 million in 2001, well, ya gotta wonder where their priorities are.

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