But its annual operating expenses have been $2 to $3 million higher than annual revenue for more than a decade, Murti said. The opera’s operating budget for fiscal year 2017 is $22.5 million.
The shop earns revenue from work for outside theater clients but that profit is “small” and doesn’t cover “the true cost of overhead (utilities, insurance, payroll, etc.) to run this facility,” Lang said.Įliminating the scene shop and using the building for set storage will help save the organization nearly $500,000 a year, according to Kristina Murti, Seattle Opera’s communications director. In email announcements, General Director Aidan Lang called the cuts “difficult” and “painful,” but explained that the organization’s financial situation has been tenuous. It’s one of the few shops of its kind in the country able to create such grand and complicated sets and props.īut last month, the Opera announced it was shutting down the shop, laying off two scene shop staffers (as well as another four in the organization).
The forests are mammoth and equally as magical.įor three decades, the Seattle Opera’s scene shop in Renton has delivered a whole array of fantastical creations.
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