NEW YORK — Jacques Offenbach's "La Perichole" struggled to break through and was ultimately suffocated in Christopher Alden's heavy-handed and a...
NEW YORK — The Exodus was the subject of New York City Opera's return to City Center following a 48-year absence. Not the company's exit from L...
While partying and having fun is a temptation for most 20-year-olds, Eliasch, who began vocal training at age thirteen, and recently graduated from New York's Mannes College of Music with a focus in voice will have his opera debut at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, March 31.
NEW YORK -- When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw." The British com...
As we alternate between the roles of spectator and performer, we owe each other inspired work before taking the stage, the kind that lays weaknesses bare, but follows with a view into our capacity to accomplish unreal things.
George Steel inherited a financial mess when he took over New York City Opera in 2009. As the artistic director and general manager, he made a dramati...
The New York City Opera has recently announced the six selections that will appear in this year's VOX Festival in New York, a workshop program for new...
Poverty, sickness, and violence represent humanity at its worst. We must each, individually and collectively, address such societal problems.
The role of "Leone" in Verdi's Attila requires an artist of the larger-than-life variety. For the 2012 summer season at San Francisco Opera, that can be carried off by no one else but Samuel Ramey.
NEW YORK -- No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln...
Orpheus, considered by some Telemann's masterpiece, opens its run of four performances Saturday at the Teatro del Museo del Barrio by the New York City Opera.
NEW YORK -- New York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence, splitting the 2012-13 season betwee...
Harvey was best known as the inspirational leader who turned the Brooklyn Academy of Music into one of the great arts institutions of the nation. Before becoming an arts manager, he was a dancer who collaborated with choreographers like Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld, Bill T. Jones and Pina Bausch.
NEW YORK -- Christopher Alden has a bleak view of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte." The final message of his fascinating, quirky and sometimes downright wei...
Now that the New York City Opera is back up and running, maybe they should consider this portly pizzamaker up in Farmingdale, New York as a guest perf...
NEW YORK — In a last-ditch effort to save one of America's cultural institutions, unions representing the New York City Opera have reached tenta...
Certainly, some of the opera's woes were a result of the recession, but the majority of them were self-inflicted. Here are some of the managerial lessons I derived from this operatic saga.
Artistic treasures of all types must be studied to appreciate those of our present day. In our current world of instant gratification and short attention spans -- it is easy to forget what came before.
NEW YORK — 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...
NEW YORK -- The union representing New York City Opera's chorus assumes it will be locked out by the troubled company if a labor agreement isn't reach...
To evaluate classical music in 2011 shows us a divided land. One troubling trend shows the continued financial struggles of classical music organizati...
NEW YORK -- New York City Opera declared an impasse Thursday in contract negotiations with unions for its singers and musicians, threatening to presen...
The ghosts of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey and too many others to name are hopefully still in residence, inspiring a new generation of artists to create great works.
"The People's Opera" is leaving the travertine fastness of Lincoln Center and coming out to meet the people: in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in Central Park, on the West Side, the East Side -- wherever New Yorkers live and love their favorite opera company.
NEW YORK — Musicians of the New York City Opera are staging a protest as the company announces its new season. The union members say they're be...
