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NYC Opera, Now A Shrunken Company, Ends Its Season In Harlem

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 05.17.2012

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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...

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NYC Opera Returns To City Center For First Time In Almost 50 Years

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 04.18.2012

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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...

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Dark Mozart Production Says, We Could All End Up Drinking On A Park Bench

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 03.23.2012

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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...

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City Opera Reaches Tentative Deal With Union

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 03.19.2012

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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...

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New York City Opera: A Cautionary Tale

Vivien Hoexter | Posted 03.18.2012

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Vivien Hoexter

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.

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NYC Ballet's Programming Challenge: A World-Class Ballet Company Without World-Class Access

Kristin Sloan | Posted 01.30.2012

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Kristin Sloan

While there are many hurdles to cross before digital media can become a fluid and revenue-generating component of the company's operations, there is much more NYBC could and should be doing in this space.

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New York City Opera Musicians Protest

AP | Posted 09.11.2011

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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...

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Union Files Complaint To Stop NYC Opera Move

AP | Posted 07.27.2011

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NEW YORK — A union has filed a federal complaint against the troubled New York City Opera, saying the company's plans to move out of Lincoln Cen...

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NYC Opera Faces Backlash Against Decision To Move

AP | Posted 07.22.2011

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NEW YORK — A union representing workers at the financially troubled New York City Opera says it will file unfair labor practice charges after th...

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NYC Opera To Leave Lincoln Center, Cut Staff

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 07.21.2011

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NEW YORK — The board of the financially troubled New York City Opera voted Friday to move out of its home at Lincoln Center, cut staff across th...

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The NYC Opera Is Fighting For Its Life

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 07.19.2011

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NEW YORK — The New York City Opera, a pillar of American culture that for decades has built daring new productions along with the careers of sta...

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'A Quiet Place,' 'Intermezzo' Show NYC Opera At Its Best

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Two 20th-century works that depict their composers' vastly divergent views of domestic life are on display for the New York City Oper...

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City Opera's 'American Voices' Gala Already Raises Record-Breaking $2 Million

Crain's New York Business | Miriam Kreinin Souccar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Defying the naysayers who thought it wouldn't survive, New York City Opera is opening its season Thursday night with a record-breaking gala....

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