Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
Waleson, Heidi
From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt-and what it means for the future of the artsIn October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera-"the people's opera"-had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene-as the populist antithesis of the g...
