Rayanne Dupuis and Lauren Flanigan in Florida Grand Opera’s “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Photo by Justin Namon, courtesy of FGO

It’s no secret that arts organizations have been doing a lot of adjusting and rethinking under the pressures of massive technological change and economic dislocation.

Opera companies have been especially hard-hit, and for devotees of this art form, there is a long list of used-to-be organizations to lament, chief among them the pioneering New York City Opera (the Opera Now! podcast has an occasional segment called “The Weekly Dirge,” in which announcements of company closings are aired).

South Florida’s own opera companies have been forced to innovate and try new things to find new audiences and donors. This season marks Palm Beach Opera’s first world premiere, Ben Moore’s Enemies, a Love Story, which hits the boards in West Palm Beach in February.

Miami’s Florida Grand Opera, under the leadership of longtime Sarasota Opera executive Susan Danis, last season presented a brilliant new production of Marvin David Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra, and in May will revive another American work, Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Consul.

This week, FGO wants to know what its audiences think about the direction it should be taking. Having commissioned a strategic plan from the consulting firm of Genovese Vanderhoof and Associates, FGO officials will announce the results of that study tomorrow in the first of four “town hall” meetings it is holding to gather community feedback.

“These presentations will be informative, interactive, and will feature music from some of the operas slated for inclusion in the coming seasons,” Danis said in a prepared company statement. “Please attend and learn more about the future of your opera company.”

The meetings are set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at Florida International University’s Urban Studios on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach; 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 7th at FGO’s offices in Doral; 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 8th at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Coral Gables; and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 9th at the Josephine Leiser Opera Center just off Las Olas Boulevard in Ft. Lauderdale.

Tomorrow’s meeting will feature a special guest, Marc Scorca, president of Opera America. Scorca has led the Washington, D.C., trade organization for American opera companies since 1990, and has led funding campaigns for the development of new works and new audiences.

Florida Grand Opera can trace its origins back to 1941, which qualifies it for near-iconic status in the South Florida arts. It’s had to downsize in recent years — not all that long ago, it was presenting six operas per season instead of four, and offering world premieres such as David Carlson’s Anna Karenina — and it’s taken advantage of changes in culture-going to present pop-up operas such as its popular double bill last year of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Tango and Astor Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires at The Stage, the celebrated live music venue in the Miami Design District.

But there’s no doubt that the balance sheet is constantly on the minds of FGO’s officials, and it will be illuminating to hear what they’re planning and what members of the public think they can be doing to keep this great art form flourishing here.

FGO is asking that members of the public interested in attending one of these meetings RSVP, specifying the number of people planning to go, and to which meeting, by sending an email to Scott Guinn at [email protected], or by calling 305-403-3309.