Blog Post 8: Ethnography Status Update

My research for the ethnography is going well. Dallasopera.org will probably be one of my main sources because it has a lot of information on the history of the company, press releases, interviews and learning material. The interview aspect of my project has proven to be very difficult. Since I changed my ethnography topic relatively late, I haven't gotten email correspondence from a performer at The Dallas Opera. I might not be able to include that part in my final ethnography report. Instead, I will draw from interviews that The Dallas Opera have on their website. I wanted to find a source for statistics of Opera-goings like attendance levels over the years but it seems like there isn't a specific survey about that. If there is, please let me know!