Three weeks into the bankruptcy of New York City Opera, there’s discussion in opera circles about how to reconstitute it under a different management to provide the country’s most populous city with an alternative to the Metropolitan Opera, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. “Many people are talking about the need for a second company, with a similar role New York City Opera had,” Gail Kruvand, chairwoman of City Opera’s orchestra committee, said in an interview on Saturday. “We continue to hope that will arise.” In one scenario, the new company would rehearse and perform about 30 miles north of New York City at Purchase College, State University of New York, founded by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The campus has an active music program and hosts a new two-week summer residency for the National Youth Orchestra of the U.S., established by Carnegie Hall. Absent a miracle or merger, the current iteration of City Opera, founded in 1943, will be shutdown.
