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Orlando Opera Fans Get the Shaft, While the Former CEO Gets a Cruise

By Billy Manes

Orlando Weekly | June 25, 2009

The Orlando Opera recently suspended its operations and filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the opera board paid off contracts, gave its employees severance pay and, in a particularly stunning display of tone-deafness, now wants to send the CEO who oversaw the opera's collapse on a Caribbean cruise as a birthday surprise.

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Tags: Jim Ireland, Orlando Opera, recession

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