Last year on the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra blog, Eddie Silva sagely observed, “Anything that’s been pronounced dead as often as classical music needs to move on to another subject. Classical music is not like a dying race track, or an old sports arena, or a typewriter. It is real estate open to reinvention.”
“It’s a wonderful, intimate setting. The musicians and programs are fabulous.” 
The biggest and best summer festival of classical music is in session, and available — free — to everyone with a computer. (Or, in the U.K.
It might be possible to look at the newest arrivals at a company like San Francisco Opera as beginners of a sort, perched on the bottom rung on a most accomplished ladder.
