Opera House slashes deficit

ALMOST €2.8 million is to be wiped off the Cork Opera House’s €3.7m debts in the coming months.

Attendance levels in the main auditorium rose to 64% of its 1,000 seat capacity, comparable to full houses at the 600 seat Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

In all 224,000 paying customers utilised the Opera House complex in the year to March of this year.