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New York City Opera (remember them?) have announced a program for spring 2021, with repertoire consistent with the company’s recent policy of equal-opportunity pandering.
The company promises plans the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, at Edmond J. Safra Hall inside the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust – “in April 2021.”
NYCO also plans to present a staged concert version of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera The Central Park Five, “venue and date to be announced.”
The last NYCO presentation to date was Stonewall in June 2019.
La Cieca
James Jorden (who wrote under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") was the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he wrote for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni. He also contributed a regular column on opera for the New York Observer. James died in October 2023.
The company promises plans the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, at Edmond J. Safra Hall inside the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust – “in April 2021.”