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New York City Opera announces musician lockout
NEW YORK (AP) — A bitter contract dispute has led to a lockout of musicians at the New York City Opera, a possible “death knell” for a company that’s nurtured such singers as Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo and Beverly Sills. On Sunday, hours after talks broke down, the cash-strapped company canceled Monday rehearsals for a [...]
The Measure of Men
Our very first guest writer when we began Operagasm in 2010 delivered once more in 2011 with an intelligent article featured during our gender bender. Enjoy another one of the best articles of 2011! by A. Scott Parry “If I act that way, people will think I’m weak.” “There’s no way I’m going to do [...]
NEW YORK CITY OPERA ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR RUFUS WAINWRIGHT CONCERT
Who Are You New York?: The Songs of Rufus Wainwright Performance Premiere of Wainwright’s Song Cycle, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu Performed in its Entirety Single Tickets for City Opera Available Now (New York, NY, October 19, 2011) New York City Opera today announced concert details for Who Are You New York?: The [...]
Unions ask state AG to probe fraud at NYC Opera
(Associated Press) — Unions representing musicians and artists at troubled New York City Opera have asked the state Attorney General to investigate fraud by the cash-strapped company. In a letter dated Monday, the unions accused City Opera of providing false information to the court when it sought to invade its endowment and of various breaches by [...]
The NYCO Leak
New York City Opera announced yesterday that they would reveal their 2011-2012 season next week. This is a good sign for the financially struggling company. However, the bad sign is there is a little leak in the organization that preempted their big announcement. Check out this article in the New York Times blog with all [...]
The State of NYCO or “The People’s Opera, in Peril”
Julius Rudel was the general director and principal conductor of the New York City Opera from 1957 to 1979. He offers his thoughts on the current state of the opera company in the following article published on June 7th in the New York Times. “The New York City Opera was born in 1943, a year [...]
‘Seance on a Wet Afternoon’ makes for dreary evening at New York City Opera
(Mike Silverman/ Associated Press) NEW YORK — Stephen Schwartz might easily have rested on his reputation as one of Broadway’s most successful songwriters. But the man responsible for “Wicked,” “Godspell” and “Pippin” had a higher ambition: to write an opera. The ambition is laudable. The result, alas, not so much. “Seance on a Wet Afternoon,” [...]
Can NYCO survive?
Check out this interesting article by Olivia Giovetti, which asks the question: Is $5 Million the End of the World or an Opera Company: For many, it seems a maddeningly disconcerting that New York City Opera should now postpone its announcement of the 2011-12 season in order to reconcile its financial woes, chief among them [...]
Operagasm Exclusive Review: NYCO L’elisir d’amore
by Sarah Heisler There is so much going on onstage in New York City Opera’s revival of Jonathan Miller’s production of L’elisir d’amore, that only by the second act does it become clear that you’ve been listening to some truly talented voices sing one of the best loved operas in the repertoire. Updating the action [...]
NYCO’s Monodrama is Contagious!
by Christie Connolley NYCO’s triple bill of 20th century opera (most of you won’t recognize these operas, although you may nod knowingly while adjusting your glasses and act like you are familiar, we both know you are not) including Zorn’s La Machine de l’etre, Schoenberg’s Erwartung (I would accept a furrowed brow or stroke of [...]
