How New York City Opera Came Back From Death

The nearly two-year long battle for the resurrection of the New York City Opera (NYCO) came to a close last week.

NYCO-Renaissance (NYCO-R), headed by hedge fund manager Roy Niederhoffer and Michael Capasso, former head of the now defunct Dicapo Opera Theatre, opened their first production, a six show run of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center, with the full legal authority to use the NYCO name.

Whether it stays alive, however, is another story.

NYCO’s untimely and very public death left the Metropolitan Opera the only major opera company in New York City.

Most large European cities have more than one major opera company, London and Paris have two each, Berlin and Vienna each have three and that is not counting the myriad of smaller companies that perform in each of those cities.

The closure of NYCO and the general madness surrounding the Metropolitan Opera in the last couple years have caused some to doubt the future of opera as an art form in the US.

The attempted resurrection of NYCO has been watched closely by US opera fans anxiously hoping for a positive sign regarding the future of opera.

Read the article at The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-new-york-city-opera-came-back-from-death