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Risky Business

In trying economic times for the arts, American Opera Projects commits itself to the trickiest of all ventures - creating new operas and selling them to the public. BARRY SINGER reports.

Executive director Charles Jarden and company manager Matthew Gray at the Fort Greene home of American Opera Projects

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