March is cruelest month. One might even call it an opera wasteland. It's very unusual for us to be dark for nearly two-whole months in the middle of our season. The reason why is Moby -Dick . And the economy. When the economy started circling the drain we made the decision the move Moby -Dick from 2011 to 2012. Selling new opera is hard. Selling new opera in a recession is even harder. But San Diego Opera still has plenty to offer even though we do not open our next opera, Der Rosenkavalier , until Sunday, April 3, 2011. Our free Community Conversation series is in full swing with some exciting topics coming up in the next few weeks. Faust's Pact With the Devil - An Interfaith Dialogue on the Concept of Evil is this Sunday, February 27 th at The St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. This will be a roundtable discussion about evil with members from San Diego's Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist communities. It's currently sold-out but you might try your l