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Critic's Notebook

A utopian endeavor is cut short

By Jeremy Eichler

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 24, 2011

The city’s music scene suffered a major loss yesterday, as Opera Boston announced it would be closing down. The smaller of the city’s two main companies, Opera Boston had a run that lasted less than a decade but it accomplished more in that time, and took more important artistic risks, than regional companies twice its age and with more than twice its budget. From its very first days, the company’s mission was a utopian one: to champion the musical underdogs, the scores by living composers.

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