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July 18, 2022 New York City Opera Presents Opera’s Greatest Moments at Wollman Rink in Central Park August 2, 2022 New York City Opera will present Opera’s Greatest Moments on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 7pm at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Enjoy a selection of opera favorites performed by extraordinary artists from the New York City Opera, including Michael Capasso, narrator; Kathryn Olander, piano; Marsha Thompson, soprano; Elissa Pfaender, mezzo-soprano; WooYoung Yoon, tenor; and Gustavo Feuline, baritone. Tickets are $15. This is a non-skating event. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit wollmanrinknyc.com/event/new-york-city-opera Read More Buy Tickets

July 14, 2022 Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America continues on August 12 with New York City Opera’s abridged version of Verdi's classic, La traviata. Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America continues on August 12 with New York City Opera’s abridged version of Verdi's classic, La traviata. Michael Capasso, General Director of New York City Opera, says, "'The People's Opera' is thrilled to return to our summer home at Bryant Park, where we can continue our mission of free performances for New York audiences." The performance lasts two hours with one 15-minute intermission. Read More

July 7, 2022 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice announces 2022 Festival Season August 5-7, 2022 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice announces the 2022 Festival Season, August 5-7, 2022 at 8:30pm at Saint Ursula Place, Phoenicia, NY. The weekend will include Teatro Grattacielo’s production of Don Giovanni, New York City Opera’s production of La Traviata, and Hollywood in the Hills, a special concert event celebrating opera in the movies. Tickets are each event are $5 for children under 16, $40 general admission, and $95 VIP. Weekend passes that provide access to all three events are $100. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit phoeniciavoicefest.org or call 845-594-8201. Read More Buy Tickets

June 7, 2021 NEW YORK CITY OPERA ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF WORLD-RENOWNED CONDUCTOR AND PIANIST CONSTANTINE ORBELIAN New York City Opera (Michael Capasso, General Director) has announced the appointment of internationally acclaimed conductor and pianist Constantine Orbelian as the company’s Music Director and Principal Conductor. Maestro Orbelian will conduct his first NYCO production this summer when the company performs a newly created version of Rigoletto on Sunday, August 29 at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in Kingston, New York, followed by an encore performance of the Verdi favorite on Friday, September 3 as part of Bryant Park’s annual Picnic Performance series. Read More

April 28, 2021 New York City Opera community is very sad to learn of the passing of Paul Kellogg The entire New York City Opera community is very sad to learn of the passing of Paul Kellogg this morning in Cooperstown, NY. Paul was a visionary in the opera world who masterfully led City Opera from 1996 to 2007 during a period of incredible change for the company and the city. Read More

August 13, 2020 NEW YORK CITY OPERA TO PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF RICKY IAN GORDON’S “THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS” New York City Opera (NYCO), under the direction of Michael Capasso, has announced plans to produce the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, Dominick Balletta, Executive Director). THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, with a libretto by Michael Korie and direction and choreography by Richard Stafford, will open at Edmond J. Safra Hall, Folksbiene’s theatrical home, inside the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust – in April 2021. Read More

June 19, 2020 New York City Opera celebrates Juneteenth with an excerpt from William Grant Still’s Troubled Island. Featuring: Kevin Thompson, bass | Lawrence P. Schreiber, pianist

“Black Lives have mattered to the New York City Opera since its inception in 1943. As ‘The People's Opera’ we were formed to serve ALL people, regardless of race. We serve a diverse audience and have employed diversity in casting and programming for over 75 years."
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June 3, 2020 New York City Opera's statement on Black Lives Matter New York City Opera stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the non-violent protestors across the nation who are voicing outrage at the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others who have been killed at the hands of systemic racism.

We are proud of our long history of diversity and inclusion that goes back to NYCO’s founding as “The People’s Opera” 76 years ago and continues to this day.

Just as there is no room for racism in the opera house, there is no room for it in the world.

April 1, 2020 A few words from General Director Michael Capasso The performing arts worldwide have been silenced by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The New York City Opera, along with the rest of the world, is on lock-down.
But this will pass. And when it does the arts will lead the charge to recovery.
Soon you will hear more from us and the City Opera will be singing again.
Please join us in thanking those who are risking their lives to save ours.
Stay safe and healthy!
Michael Capasso and the entire New York City Opera Family.

June 22, 2019 'Stonewall' Opera Marks Uprising's 50th Anniversary June 28 marks the 50th anniversary of an event that proved to be a catalyst for a simmering gay-rights movement. On that day in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Now a new opera, Stonewall, at the New York City Opera, dramatizes that historic moment. Read More

June 20, 2019 After a 50-year wait, ‘Stonewall’ opera was written in weeks NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell received a note in late February 2018 from the general director of the New York City Opera: “I may have a project for you, but you have to write quickly.” Read More

June 18, 2019 ‘Stonewall’ celebrates 50th anniversary of historic uprising in operatic form In the half-century since members of the LGBTQ community countered a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn with a spontaneous uprising, the events of June 1969 have been recounted, recreated and dramatized in documentary films, on canvas, in songs, on stage and in movies. But never has the series of events credited with igniting a civil rights movement been interpreted in operatic form, until now. Read More

June 14, 2019 Stonewall Inn Hits the Opera Stage A new production on the 1969 uprising that fueled the gay rights movement is making its premiere on a New York City stage to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the event. NBC 4 New York's Jamie Roth reports. Read More

June 14, 2019 'Stonewall' Opera Michael Capasso, general director of the New York City Opera, and composer Iain Bell discuss their newest opera, “Stonewall,” accompanied by performances from mezzo-soprano Lisa Chavez, tenor Jordan Weatherston Pitts, and Kathryn Olander on piano. Read More

December 28, 2018 10 Must See Operas In 2019 [North America Edition] Even though 2018 is coming to an end, there is a lot of opera to look forward to in 2019. There will be even more stars, world premieres, new productions, and rarely performed works that will be showcased throughout the world. In celebration of the new year, let’s take a look at the operas OperaWire believes are not be missed in North America in 2019. Read More

December 28, 2018 Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year Yes, it’s that time of the year where we wax poetic about transformative experiences we have had over the course of the last 300 or so days. Sometimes we curate these experiences as rankings to fuel some individual emotions, and at other moments we simply do what we are doing with this piece – let a few different people chip in and provide unique perspectives. Read More

December 18, 2018 The Sixth Annual Excellence in Opera (aka The Freddie) Awards In 2018, I attended 91 opera performances given by 27 different companies of all sizes and budgets. Most, not surprisingly, were at the Metropolitan Opera, but I also saw multiple performances by New York City Opera, Juilliard, Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, and in Philadelphia, Washington, San Francisco, Aix-en-Provence, Berlin, Parma and Milan. Read More

December 5, 2018 The Best Classical Music of 2018 Anna Caterina Antonacci
One of our most essential singers arrived for a rare New York recital in February at Zankel Hall. Read More

May 24, 2017 NEW YORK CITY OPERA ANNOUNCES 2017/2018 SEASON New York City Opera’s 2017/2018 season will offer four new mainstage productions at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, including a Spanish-language opera as part of its Ópera en Español series. City Opera will also offer two New York City Opera Concerts in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and a chamber opera series at locations to be announced. New York City Opera Orchestra will be featured in every opera. Read More

January 12, 2017 DEADLINE- The Best of All Hal Prince’s Worlds The fever dream that is Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is born again with the reconstituted New York City Opera, along with the happy delirium that is the hallmark of Harold Prince’s revival of this landmark work. Far too much intellectual energy has been spent debating the show’s place in the repertory — is it opera? musical theater? — and in an amusing twist, this production is being presented at Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Call it what you will, Candide taps gleefully into each of those disparate worlds, offering an effervescent tonic in trying times. It all but fizzes before your eyes. Read More

January 11, 2017 BROADWAY WORLD- New York City Opera Returns With A Princely CANDIDE The opening fanfare of one of the most exhilarating overtures ever to hit Broadway signals the joyous return of New York City Opera. Read More

January 9, 2017 NEW YORK TIMES - The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera Since New York City Opera emerged from bankruptcy a year ago, it’s been hard to know what to make of it. Is this venture truly a renaissance of the venerable company that went out of business in 2013 after 70 adventurous years? Or should the quite variable productions that have been offered over the past year be seen as the first steps of a completely reconceived City Opera?

With a new — though, as you’ll see, not entirely new — production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” that opened on Friday at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the company may finally have, to quote the show, “the best of all possible worlds.” Read More

December 27, 2016 New York City Opera’s Road Back — An Interview with General Director Michael Capasso Next week, New York City Opera continues its season with a Hal Prince mounting of Candide. From 1943 to 2013, NYCO had sat beside the Met as New York’s other full-time repertory opera company. This production is the third in the first post-bankruptcy season, a season designed by General Director Michael Capasso on a production strategy meant to bring the company back to relevancy. Read More

November 2, 2016 New York City Opera announces the cast for Leonard Bernstein’s Candide New York City Opera is thrilled to announce the cast for its January 2017 production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide directed by legendary Broadway visionary Harold Prince and choreographed by Patricia Birch. Read More Buy Tickets

October 5, 2016 New York City Opera Receives $1 Million Matching Challenge. Every Contribution Made Through December 31, 2016 Will Be Doubled Until $1 Million Gift Is Exhausted. An exciting announcement comes today from Michael Capasso, General Director, New York City Opera: “An anonymous donor has generously offered a $1 Million Matching Challenge to The People’s Opera! We have accepted the challenge and this is an extraordinary opportunity for all of us. Every gift we receive until the end of the year will be doubled. This means any amount donated from today through December 31, 2016 will have twice the impact!” For more information or to donate please: Read More

May 26, 2016 The Resurrected New York City Opera's Ambitious New Season When the New York City Opera (NYCO) announced its final performances and imminent bankruptcy in September 2013, opera lovers, not just in Manhattan, were shocked. How could a 70-year-old company, dubbed "The People's Opera," which nurtured the careers of emerging stars like Beverly Sills and Plácido Domingo, fall so far and suddenly cease to be? Read More

May 24, 2016 New York City Opera to Join Forces With Harold Prince Next Season The group resurrecting New York City Opera from bankruptcy announced on Tuesday that it would be collaborating with an important figure from the company’s past: the director Harold Prince, who plans to stage Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” next season. “It’s all about City Opera: I want the people’s opera back in New York,” said Mr. Prince, 88, who directed a number of celebrated productions for the old City Opera, including the well received company premiere of “Candide” in 1982, which helped change perceptions of the piece. Read More

May 24, 2016 NEW YORK CITY OPERA ANNOUNCES 2016 - 17 SEASON New York City Opera General Director Michael Capasso today announced the 2016-17 season of City Opera, a full season of new productions, concerts, and presentations for the “people’s opera.” New York City Opera will offer five operas (including a double bill) at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater; two chamber operas, including a Spanish baroque work at Harlem Stage as part of its Ópera en Español series, and New York City Opera Concerts at The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. New York City Opera Orchestra will be featured in every opera and concert. Read More

April 15, 2016 Michael Capasso and the rebirth of the New York City Opera Music, an integral part of the Italian who migrates, makes its way through the generations of a new youth, like a gentle reminder and an historical and cultural identity that excites and inspires modern paths of personal development. With his grandparents and great-grandparents from the Campania region as accomplices, the New Yorker, Michael Capasso, at the age of seven develops a passion for the classics and for the Neapolitan language. He begins by asking questions and listening to recordings of the legendary voice of Enrico Caruso. Read More

March 31, 2016 New York Premiere of Hopper’s Wife March 31, 2016 — New York City Opera presents the New York premiere of Hopper’s Wife by composer Stewart Wallace, set to a libretto by Michael Korie. This production also marks the East Coast premiere of the opera. Performances take place at Harlem Stage on April 28, 29, 30 and May 1, 2016.

Michael Capasso, General Director, New York City Opera, says “I am delighted to present Hopper's Wife as the first work in our multi-season series of chamber operas. I was introduced to this fascinating opera when it was in development twenty years ago, and feel it is the ideal piece to launch this new series. Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie have a distinguished history with City Opera, and we are thrilled to be presenting their groundbreaking work. This production also marks the beginning of an exciting co-production relationship with Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera.” Read More

February 22, 2016 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT - NEW YORK CITY OPERA RETURNS WITH THREE PREMIERES New York City Opera General Director Michael Capasso today announced the remainder of the 2016 season. New York City Opera will present three major premieres including the world premiere of “Sunday Morning” by David Hertzberg as part of the inaugural New York City Opera Concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room on March 16; the East Coast premiere of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie’s Hopper’s Wife presented at Harlem Stage in April 2016 and the New York City professional premiere of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater in June 2016. Florencia en el Amazonas launches Spanish-language Opera Series, Ópera en Español. Read More

February 22, 2016 NEW YORK TIMES - NEW YORK CITY OPERA UNVEILS REST OF SEASON New York City Opera... said on Monday that it would stage Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” in June at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater as part of a new Spanish-language opera series.

The reorganized company, which began its first, abbreviated season last month with a consciously old-fashioned production of Puccini’s “Tosca” as a nod to the first work City Opera performed in 1944, chose “Florencia” and two other contemporary pieces to round out the season.

It will present the East Coast premiere of “Hopper’s Wife” — a 1997 chamber opera by Stewart Wallace that imagines a marriage between the painter Edward Hopper and the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper — at Harlem Stage from April 28 through May 1.

And on March 16 it will inaugurate a new concert series at the Appel Room in Jazz at Lincoln Center with the premiere of David Hertzberg’s “Sunday Morning”. Read More

January 16, 2016 THE NEW YORKER - LEAP OF FAITH, AN AMBITIOUS ORGANIZATION TRIES TO REBOOT “THE PEOPLE’S OPERA.” The tentative return of City Opera will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre, the moderately sized and acoustically satisfying venue at Columbus Circle, which the organization is renting for a staging of “Tosca” (Jan. 20-24). “Our goal is to reëngage by returning the company to a Lincoln Center venue, because the audience liked to associate the company with a permanent location,” Capasso says. But will they bite? Those who long for Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuously conservative production of Puccini’s masterpiece, which the Met replaced with the austerely modernist Luc Bondy staging in 2009, might well be cheered by the NYCO Renaissance production: to evoke the three specific Roman locations in which the composer set each act, the organization has partnered with the Archivio Storico Ricordi, in Milan, to re-create the costumes and décor designed by the great Adolfo Hohenstein for the opera’s world première, in 1900. The two casts for the run will include established up-and-comers (the tenor James Valenti and the soprano Latonia Moore), young unknowns, and even a respected veteran (the baritone Carlo Guelfi)—just as the old City Opera would have done. For anyone in New York who loves opera, attendance is mandatory. Read More

January 12, 2016 WALL STREET JOURNAL - JUDGE OKS CITY OPERA’S REVIVAL PLAN The New York City Opera will sing again.

More than two years after it ran out of money and had to shut down midseason, the cultural institution known as “the people’s opera” won approval of its plan to exit bankruptcy and re-launch performances under the control of an organization headed by hedge-fund manager Roy Niederhoffer.

Judge Sean Lane of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan approved the opera’s plan Tuesday afternoon, saying he was happy to confirm the plan of “a beloved and important cultural institution.” Read More

January 12, 2016 NEW YORK TIMES - NEW YORK CITY OPERA WILL RETURN, AND SOON, UNDER REORGANIZATION PLAN New York City Opera is coming back under new management.

The venerable opera company — which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013 after a series of missteps left it unable to put on its season — will soon be revived in a different form under a reorganization plan confirmed Tuesday by Judge Sean H. Lane of United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

The group taking over the company, NYCO Renaissance, hopes to use the City Opera name by next week, when it plans to present Puccini’s “Tosca” on Jan. 20-24 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. If all goes smoothly, company officials said, they hope their new “Tosca” can be billed a co-production of NYCO Renaissance and City Opera. The plan calls for putting on annual seasons. Read More

December 17, 2015 NYCO RENAISSANCE PRESENTS A NEW PRODUCTION OF GIACOMO PUCCINI'S TOSCA American Premiere of the Stage and Costume Designs from the Original Production
Six Performances January 20-24, 2016 at
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

NYCO Renaissance pays tribute to New York City Opera with six performances of a new production of Tosca, January 20–24, 2016 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, New York City.

Giacomo Puccini’s three-act melodrama with its vivid Roman tableaux—the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, the Palazzo Farnese, and Castel Sant’Angelo—comes to brilliant life in this staging, based on Adolf Hohenstein’s striking set and costume designs for the original production that premiered at Rome’s Teatro Costanzi in 1900. For the first time outside of Italy, American audiences will be able to take in Hohenstein’s majestic Roman setting, produced with the documentary resources and cooperation of the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan. John Farrell serves as associate stage designer and Ildikó Debrezceni as associate costume designer. Director Lev Pugliese, making his American debut, directs the production. Read More

December 2, 2015 A GROUP CEDES ITS BID TO REVIVE CITY OPERA TO A RIVAL The long, tangled court battle between two groups seeking to revive the bankrupt New York City Opera came to an end on Wednesday afternoon when one group withdrew its proposal and cleared the way for its rival to try to bring back the beloved opera company.

Gene Kaufman, an architect and one of the suitors who has been vying to reorganize and take control of City Opera, withdrew as part of a negotiated settlement that calls for granting his group $300,000, according to a court filing. The move made it almost certain that the next chapter in the company’s history would be written by NYCO Renaissance, a group backed by Roy G. Niederhoffer, an investment manager who served on the old City Opera board. Read More

December 2, 2015 CITY OPERA PLAN MOVES FORWARD Peace broke out Wednesday between parties competing for the right to revive New York City Opera.

Two years after the company known as “the people’s opera” shut down, its bankruptcy case will move forward with a plan to pay creditors and hand control of the opera to an organization headed by hedge-fund manager Roy Niederhoffer, a former City Opera board member. Read More

November 16, 2015 PRIMA DELLA PRIMA: TOSCA Join us for an exclusive preview of NYCO Renaissance's first fully staged production. This festive evening will include performances by members of the cast and a presentation of the opera's iconic costume and set designs.

November 11, 2015 EFFORT TO REVIVE CITY OPERA INCLUDES A 'TOSCA' STAGING NYCO Renaissance announced Wednesday that it would mount Puccini’s “Tosca” — the first production City Opera ever did, back in 1944 — Jan. 20-24 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.

“In a tribute to the history of City Opera, it was my idea from the very beginning that the relaunch of City Opera should be with ‘Tosca,’” Michael Capasso, the nascent company’s general director, said in an interview. His concept has changed a bit: The group originally hoped to mount a lavish production by Franco Zeffirelli but now plans to use a historical, more economical one based on the designs Adolf Hohenstein created for the opera’s premiere in 1900 in Rome. Read More

October 6, 2015 PLAN TO REVIVE NEW YORK CITY OPERA HAS CREDITORS’ BACKING More than two years have passed since New York City Opera filed for bankruptcy, leaving in its wake large debts and a legal battle between two rival groups hoping to revive it. Now one of them has won the backing of an important constituency: the creditors who are owed money in the bankruptcy case.

The group — which is called NYCO Renaissance and is led by Roy G. Niederhoffer, an investment manager, and Michael Capasso, an opera producer — was joined by the official committee of unsecured creditors in the case, in a proposal to reorganize City Opera that was filed late Monday in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The filing said that their plan was “in the best interests of the debtor’s estate and creditors.” Read More

June 22, 2015 ROY NIEDERHOFFER PROMOTES NYCO RENAISSANCE WITH EUROPEAN TOUR NYCO Renaissance Chairman Roy Niederhoffer will take 10 opera singers on European tour, performing a condensed version of Bizet’s "Carmen." Read More

May 15, 2015 NYCO RENAISSANCE SUPPORTERS ENJOY "CARMEN" PERFORMANCE EVENT NYCO Renaissance supporters joined Michael Capasso, Roy Niederhoffer, and host David Drake in New York City for a private performance of "Carmen," condensed into an intense 60 minute version for the occasion. View Gallery

May 3, 2015 NYCO RENAISSANCE OPERA FOR KIDS EVENT: "LA CENERENTOLA" Honoring its commitment to opera education, NYCO Renaissance presented a one hour version of Rossini’s masterpiece "La Cenerentola." At each ‘Opera for Kids’ performance, children are introduced to the fundamentals of opera through selected scenes performed with sets, costumes, and piano accompaniment. A narrator elucidates the plot, hints at the complexities of the theatre’s stagecraft, and after each performance the children participate in a lively exchange with the singers and crew. View Gallery

March 10, 2015 JULIUS RUDEL GALA BENEFITS CITY OPERA REVIVAL HOPES The beloved conductor Julius Rudel, who died last June at 93, could not abide the idea of a memorial for himself. He made this clear to his son, Anthony Rudel, who shared his father’s thoughts with the audience that packed Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on Monday night for a concert to celebrate Julius Rudel’s life and work, particularly his pioneering 22-year tenure as general director and principal conductor of New York City Opera. Read More

March 10, 2015 SOLD-OUT NYCO RENAISSANCE GALA CELEBRATES EFFORT TO RETURN THE PEOPLE'S OPERA TO NEW YORK The voice of the people sang and spoke out last night in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Appel Room and Ertegun Atrium. Many of the world's finest musicians, and many of the finest citizens of NYC assembled to celebrate an effort to return "The People's Opera" to New York. They did so in a Gala Concert and Dinner to honor the life of the late Maestro Julius Rudel, who was the Opera's General Director and Principal Conductor from 1957 to 1979. Read More

February 6, 2015 NYCO RENAISSANCE TO HOST GALA IN HONOR OF JULIUS RUDEL, 3/9 NYCO Renaissance Ltd. has partnered with the Rudel family to celebrate the illustrious career of Maestro Julius Rudel and his invaluable contribution to the New York City Opera as principal conductor and director for 22 years from 1957 to 1979. Read More

February 4, 2015 GLITTERING ARRAY OF OPERA STARS INCLUDING DAVID DANIELS, MARK DELAVAN, PLACIDO DOMINGO, CHRISTINE GOERKE, JAMES MORRIS, SAMUEL RAMEY, FREDERICA VON STADE—AND MULTI-PLATINUM LEGEND STING—TO PERFORM NYCO Renaissance was pleased to learn earlier this morning that the Board of the New York City Opera has determined that NYCO Renaissances bid was the winning bid submitted at the auction that concluded on Tuesday evening. Read More

January 22, 2015 NEW YORK CITY OPERA SELECTS INVESTOR GROUP TO REVIVE OPERA The board of the shuttered New York City Opera selected an investor group's $1.25 million offer as the winner in a battle over the right to revive the opera, but an objection from the losing bidder means the drama playing out in bankruptcy court isn't over yet. Read More