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.
It’s 1938. We know, even if the characters do not, how the story will end.
This year’s treat was Vittorio Gnecchi’s Cassandra, completed around 1905
What we go to Grattacielo for is fresh young voices singing their guts out.
It’s just not true that Gian Carlo Menotti composed The Medium as an opera only because he couldn’t get Joan Crawford to do it when his libretto was originally a screenplay.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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