Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a new theater, and earned the company a national reputation. In 1996, he took the reins at New York City Opera and began a very productive partnership between the two companies. Unable to fix City Opera’s longstanding financial troubles (and distracted by an ultimately fruitless attempt to find or build a new venue), he retired in 2007, and the company shut down in 2013. – The New York Times
