Indian ‘Magic Flute’ Generates Profits for Impresario

The challenge of how to make money from opera has taxed impresarios from the early 17th century until our time. One man is solving it in his own way.

Nicholas Heath, a former member of the Royal Opera chorus in London, has founded Regents Opera out of his own pocket -- from his savings and the income from performances -- to tour chamber-size productions of popular works.