Italian-Canadian soprano and Principal at Cesaroni Consulting, Lucia Cesaroni, is a regular contributor to Opera Canada's print publications.  She writes the Stage Business and Essential Perspectives columns. The Opera Glasses host, Elizabeth Bowman, chats with Cesaroni about the state of the opera business, more specifically what audiences want, music education, the worth of artists in business, and funding.

Lucia Cesaroni has established an international opera career, singing with companies in Italy, the U.S. and Canada. Living between Toronto, New York and Raiano, Italy, Lucia employs her skills and discipline as a performer as well as her international network to coach executives and teams at Salesforce, Bell Canada, Everlane, Google, Forward Together, Archer Daniels Midland, Masters Insurance as well as MBA students at Carleton University. She embodies the artist-entrepreneur, articulating the value of strategic creativity, art and artists outside of the arts.

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