must… curtail… season…

kryptonite

“I don’t see how they could not close…There is a slight chance that they can remain open, but where would the money come from?”

That’s Robert W. Wilson, former New York City Opera chairman, deftly nabbing the takeaway quote from Robin Pogrebin‘s NYT analysis of what went wrong for the company.  And wait until you hear the horror stories of “endowment invasion!” [NYT]

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