For those seven years of Waters' tenure, four or five operas were produced every season.
Assume the worst about Waters - that he has been a slack administrator who lets paperwork pile up and takes too long to contract singers that he has not been 'prepared or artistically motivated' (the most dumbfounding of the charges made against him) that he is an ineffective frontman for the company in the community, unable to stir up enthusiasm, ticket sales and contributors.īut then consider this.