WHY DOES NEW YORK NEED TWO OPERA COMPANIES? CAN ANYONE TELL US?

“Sure, I care about what works City Opera will perform next season. I care about who’ll be singing in them and who’ll be directing them. But in addition to answering the ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, George Steel must take on the big ‘why’: New York already has one major opera company. Why does it need two? If he can’t come up with an answer to that question, then New York City Opera is doomed–and deserves to be…”