http://www.nysun.com/article/21637
Standing Room Only for New Music, Fierce and Quiet Alike
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/arts/music/18powe.html
I’m Making it as an Opera Singer
http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/magazine/archives/2005/10/mystory.html
In the Land of Verdi, Where Egyptians Are Italian
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/arts/music/17aida.html
Soprano Taking Chances as a Feisty Wood Nymph
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/arts/music/17daph.html
Alex Ross on City Operaís fall season
New York City Opera opened in February, 1944, at the height of the battles of Anzio and Truk. If skeptics thought it frivolous to start an opera company in the middle of a world war, Fiorello LaGuardia straightened them out: the music-loving Mayor believed that opera was essential to city life, and he wanted lower- and middle-class New Yorkers to have it at affordable prices, without pretension.