A Taste of City Opera's Season
Classical Music
By GEORGE LOOMISSeptember 10, 2007
High priced galas and opera opening nights go hand in glove, but for the last three years, the New York City Opera has turned its back on conventional economic wisdom by inaugurating its fall season with Opera-for-All, a mini-festival for which ticket prices are not jacked up but rather slashed to $25 a ticket. The company maintains that by cutting the price of tickets, it attracts new audiences to opera. Maybe so, but the regular operagoer also gets to enjoy an all-too-rare bargain. In these times of transition for the company, it is good to see it reaffirming its historical mission, set by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia upon its founding in the 1940s, as the people's opera.
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