Two hundred scores lie on the desk. The calendar holds twelve nights. That, at its core, is the whole story ? everything else is negotiation.
An opera house can put every production on stage immaculately ? on time, on budget, to a standing ovation ? and still fail, because it staged the wrong operas. Companies and public bodies manage exactly the same feat: every project on the dashboard glows green, and year after year the organisation counts for less. What decides success is not how well something is done, but whether it is done at all. That is the question asked least often.
Nine chapters tell of the season plan as the only honest strategy paper a house owns: of selection under scarcity, of the no that can be justified, of the soprano who cannot be cloned, and of the evening when the curtain falls before it has ever risen.
Autorentext
Andreas Schulz is a slightly tousled collector of thoughts ? a wanderer between worlds and times. Always with a knowing glint, sometimes a touch too curious, often hunting for the odd little detail everyone else walks right past.
He jots down what's imagined before it slips away again ? fleeting, playful, occasionally cheeky, but always with heart. A storyteller who prefers the side street over the main road, because that's where the better stories are waiting.