Article: “How Vienna’s opera houses are staying open in the pandemic” by Julia Belluz

https://www.vox.com/2020/9/30/21454127/vienna-austria-covid-19-opera-risk-singing

The author writes about opera houses in Vienna that reopened in September after being shut for six months due to COVID-19. She also writes about how event locations have adapted to the pandemic while the case numbers are on the rise again. For her article, Belluz interviewed baritone Klemens Sander about his experience in the last few months.

I don’t think this article is very newsworthy because to people who read the news on vox.com who I believe are mainly living in the US the topic is not in proximity. And while it may be timely, the impact of the article is relatively low.

As for the lead, Belluz chose to only include how the opera houses manage to stay open which is not the main point of the article. She also chose to start the first sentence with the who (Klemens Sander) and I’m pretty sure that that name means nothing to a lot of people so I wouldn’t have started with it.