Bad News? Really? Quick, Hide It!

It was nearly three years ago that the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera merged their operations, supposedly in order to pool their resources and make both groups more financially secure. But last summer, during contract negotiations, the merged organization’s musicians became suspicious about ballooning deficits, and requested an independent audit of the Symphony/Opera’s finances. The results of that audit are now in, but the company is refusing to share the information with its full board, despite indications that the audit placed the organization near bankruptcy.