“I’m also confident that both the long-overdue New York premiere of Daniel Catán’s sumptuous Florencia en el Amazonas and Spike Lee’s fiery new staging of The Gospel at Colonus—a retelling of the Sophocles in the form of a gospel church service—will continue to bring new visions to our audiences and new audiences to our vision.  And how intrigued we’ll be to hear the Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös’ take on Tony Kushner’s most American of plays, Angels in America!”

New York City Opera’s incoming general and artistic director announces some very intriguing plans for the company’s “revamped” 2010 summer festival season at Mark Adamo Online.