NYC This Week: The Opera, Book Of Mormon, Sh*t New Yorkers Say, Verbal Colonoscopy

Last week I started what can hopefully become a bit of a regular feature revealing some of the goss and goings on in NYC…this week we have a bunch of stuff to report on from The Big Apple.

What: New York City Opera lives on
Who: NYC Opera, La Traviata, Prima Donna, Cosí fan tutte and Orpheus
When: From now for at least the next 3 years
Where: New York City!!

NY high brow and actually all culture fans can breathe a sigh of relief this week as we have learned that the New York City Opera has signed a 3 year agreement that will keep the company going, for now at least.

There has been anxiety the last few months as the company coming scarily close to going under due to finances and the dreaded GFC… blah, blah.

It’s an immense relief that the season’s four productions—La Traviata and Rufus Wainright’s Prima Donna next month, Cosí fan tutte in March, and Telemann’s Orpheus in May—will go on. Without that, City Opera might well have ceased to exist. Musicians, singers, and stagehands would have exchanged the promise of not enough money for the certainty of none. New Yorkers would have seen their cultural landscape immeasurably impoverished. This grand, scrappy, perpetually strapped, and always stouthearted company has been part of the city’s story for the past 60 years, and it has accumulated a catalog of accomplishments that should mortify the competition.

PITNB and the Opera don’t always go hand in hand, but we are all about culture, and even though I am not the biggest Opera or ‘high culture’ fan, I know how important these things are to the fabric of a city and a society. What would NYC be without the Opera or the ballet or the theater? We would be lost. So good to know that things are safe for now. We need to be getting out and showing our support for all things cultural – book a play or live music or a ticket to the opera instead of watching TV.. go on, do it (myself included!)

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