The Lyric needs to stick to opera and not become a stage for musicals like the recent Showboat production.  Yes, it was nice, but not appropriate, especially for us season ticket holders who bought our subscriptions to see opera.  We have front row center seats and enjoy both seeing and hearing good operatic singers, yet yesterday’s amplified electronic voices were totally unintelligible despite knowing the songs and lyrics in English.

Please Lyric, if you must have these productions to stay viable, let’s break the subscriptions in two.