New York City Opera's archives and musical scores were damaged by floodwaters in basement storage.
New York City Opera, meanwhile, has teetered on the edge of extinction, its board and management accused of hard-heartedness and ineptitude.
Next year Mr Mortier will take over as head of the New York City Opera, next door to the mighty Met.
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In 2009, Gerard Mortier, the director of the Paris National Opera, will leave France to run the New York City Opera.
After World War II she concentrated on singing, landing lead parts in Tosca and Ariadne auf Naxos with the New York City Opera.
This is much more suitable repertoire for her than Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus, " the baroque piece in which she made her debut with the New York City Opera last season.
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Located just south of Carnegie Hall, on West Fifty-fifth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, City Center is the original home of New York City Opera and New York City Ballet.
The New York City Opera, orphaned by Lincoln Center's unsettled plans, and looking for its own theater, has already begun enthusiastic negotiations for Mr. Libeskind's performing arts building and is contacting him about designing to their specifications.
In February, New York City Opera presented Thomas Ades's "Powder Her Face, " which tells the scandalous story of Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, who was accused by her husband of 88 extramarital affairs during their 1963 divorce.
For its third production this season, Gioachino Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" (1818), the itinerant New York City Opera returned to New York City Center, where it was born as "the people's opera" in 1944 and spent the first two decades of its life.
The beleaguered New York City Opera, cut to a fraction of its former size and self-exiled from its former home at Lincoln Center, got an 11th-hour reprieve when its unions agreed to a deal that would allow the 2012 season of four operas to go forward.
During her career, Bussell has also performed with the New York City Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Australian Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet.
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