Dear those responsible...

Fuck you economy. Fuck you OP board. Fuck those who hate the arts. Our company is going to go under and I blame you. This company I have worked for, for 10 years. This company I have loved and hated. This company that I have seen the ups and downs. Downs almost as bad as now. Downs when we were in danger of not getting paid. I've had 14 different bosses. I've been thru actually moving buildings with this company. I've been in 2 of the operas as an actor. I have watched things happen here that none of you would believe actually went down. My mom has worked as my assistant for a brief time. I've gotten friends jobs. I've made fantastic friends here. Opera is going to die. There will be no opera in Orange County!!! Dont you fucking care!!!???? This is not some little hobby that you rich fuckers supported. Being on this board was not a status/social club. This is an arts company. This is a company that puts on beautiful operas, with world reknown singers, operas that cost usually over a million dollars to put on! Your not just losing your little club or your little sad orphan puppy you supported. Your uprooting lives of people. Yes. Surprised? Are you actually surprised that human beings run this joint? Your going to send a 32 year old actor to move back home with her mom, completly changing her life. Your going to send a family back to the mid west. Your going to send an older widow to scrounge for another job. Your going to emotionally destroy someone who cares so deeply for this company that we cant even have a fucking conversation right now without breaking down. You did this!!!!!!!!!! We have fought and struggled and tried so hard to keep opera alive and we have finally lost that battle. No, its not public knowledge yet but people know. They feel it. We have brought new operas to you, re-vamped others, brought you the old standbys. We've had rave reviews. We've had singers that send shivers up your spine, music that fills your soul, sets that hurt your eyes with the stunning beauty, and so much more. Yet your killing it. I will admit - When I was 1st hired on as a temp for 3 months I thought opera was a boring, long form of art that I was just never going to get into. 10 years later I take it all back. I have seen singers that have brought me to tears. I have seen singers that give me goosebumps. I have heard music - live music - that is so beautiful I find myself holding my breath just so I dont miss a note. And your taking that all away from me and I hate you for it. I fucking hate that your uprooting my life. That your taking away my security, my benefits, my job. I hate that your taking away a magnificent art away from Orange County. So fuck you.