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Category: Finances
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Boeing Seeks to Line Up Billions in Financing as Strike Goes On
The aerospace giant said it could raise as much as $25 billion in debt or equity over the next three years, including a $10 billion line of credit.
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An Oasis in England’s Troubled, Polarized Opera Landscape
The Glyndebourne Festival, which receives little government support, has been mostly immune from recent convulsions of the opera industry in Britain.
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Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Plays to Near-Empty Theaters
Francis Ford Coppola spent roughly $140 million on the film, which debuted to an estimated $4 million in weekend ticket sales.
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A Bargain at the Opera: Philadelphia Offers All Seats for as Low as $11
Seeking new audiences, Opera Philadelphia is putting in place a pay-what-you-can model, one of the first of its kind by a major opera company.
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Burning Man Has Sold Out Since 2011. Why Not This Year?
The desert arts festival returns this month after two consecutive years of challenging weather, including mud that stranded attendees, and a Covid-19 hiatus.
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San Francisco’s Arts Institutions Are Slowly Building Back
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
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Costner’s Costly ‘Horizon’ Bites Box Office Dust
“Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” was a distant third at theaters in North America this weekend, as “Inside Out 2” and “A Quiet Place: Day One” dominated.
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Film Academy Chief Gets a Sequel: Bill Kramer’s Contract Is Renewed
Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
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Discord at the Symphony: Losing a Star, San Francisco Weighs Its Future
The struggles of one of the nation’s finest orchestras show the difficulties facing classical music in the United States.
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DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.
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Audiences Are Returning to the Met Opera, but Not for Everything
The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences is having mixed success.