Opera Cleveland
After April 2004, the company pursued financial policies that weakened it considerably. The decision was made to merge with a smaller company that operated largely in the summer, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and that was also facing financial challenges. The merged company was newly-named Opera Cleveland and gave its first staged production in April 2007. The national economic crisis that began about the same time was more than the struggling company could handle, and it suspended performing in the fall of 2010. A committee has been established to consider what type of opera company Cleveland might be able to sustain in the future.
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