City Opera's Announced Artistic and General Director resigns

Gerard Mortier, City Opera's named Artistic and General Director was supposed to take over full duties in the 2009-2010 season, but today his resignation was announced. This news actually does not surprise me much. City Opera has been having major financial problems, and this season includes no fully staged operas. Also, Mortier made a last minute bid to co-run the Bayreuth Festival in Bavaria this past summer. His ambitions seem to have outgrown the downtrodden second opera company in New York. 

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--Erika