Due to last year's massive renovations at the New York State Theater, the New York City Opera had an unusual season of music and opera. They took the show on the road and performed at fourteen different performance spaces throughout the city. The administrative turmoil at the top finally settled down In February 2009 with the appointment of George Steel as the company’s new General Manager and Artistic Director. At long last, the New York City Opera with its traditions of maverick programming and innovative acumen have come home to the Lincoln Center complex with a state-of-the-art building known as the David H. Koch Theater.
To celebrate this momentous event, the opening night concert will take place on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Medasha Brueggergosman, Amy Burton, Joyce DiDonato, Lauren Flanigan, Anthony Dean Griffey, Samuel Ramey, etc. will perform familiar, well-known selections from American opera and musical theater. Hugo Weisgall's biblical opera Esther and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni will also be heard this month.
Numerous backstage tours are being offered throughout the month for the curious and inquisitive fans.
As part of their image of being "the people's opera", they are once again discounting 25% of all tickets to a low price of $12.00. Additionally, every Monday at 10:00am during the season, $25 orchestra rush seats will be available to the general public for all performances that week, based on availability.
