When the subject of New York City Opera comes up, you always hear the same query: “What happened to City Opera? Are they even performing these days??”
The New York City Opera has become an elusive “now you see it, now you don’t” presence in the New York opera scene since the departure of main sponsor and chairman of the board Roy G. Niederhoffer in 2019.
As far as prewar Italian verismo goes, L’amore dei tre re is a supernova.
Flashes of excitement and genuine pathos lit up City Opera’s production of Dolores Claiborne!
Is this not Puccini’s greatest opera, his most human, least manipulative?
It’s easy to see why Leonard Bernstein’s Candide was a flop when it premiered on Broadway.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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