N.Y. Opera gets a new manager
Gerard Mortier has been named general manager and artistic director of New York City Opera, putting him in position to mount an avant-garde challenge to the Metropolitan Opera across Lincoln Center Plaza.
Mortier, 63, who shook up the Salzburg Festival in the 1990s and mounted innovative productions at the Paris Opera in the last few years, starts in New York in September.
“The City Opera has scored a coup. Mr. Mortier’s spirit of adventure is exactly what the company needs as its general director,” said Beverly Sills, the Met’s chairman emerita of the board.
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