New York City Opera (NYCO), “the people’s opera,” presents several shows a year at venues around New York City.
Its shows in Bryant Park and SummerStage are opera highlights of summer.
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New York City Opera Bryant Park Picnic Performances: “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Friday, September 2, 2022
BRYANT PARK
Garment District, Manhattan
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Thursday – Sunday
January 25 – 28, 2018
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January 2023
New York City Opera presents Joel Grey’s “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” about how no one is immune from social violence, at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in the Museum of Jewish Heritage at Robert F. Wagner Park in Manhattan’s Financial District, January 27 – February 6, 2023. nycopera.com 🇮🇹✡️
September 2022
NYCO performs highlights from Donizetti’s Italian opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” in a picnic performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District on Friday, September 2, 2022 from 7-8:30pm. Free. bryantpark.org 🇮🇹
August 2022
NYCO performs highlights from Verdi’s Italian opera “La Traviata” in a picnic performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District on Friday, August 12, 2022 from 7-8:30pm. Free. bryantpark.org 🇮🇹
June 2022
NYCO performs a Pride Concert picnic performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District on June 17, 2022 from 7-8:30pm. Free. 🏳️🌈
May 2022
NYCO performs highlights from Rossini’s Italian opera “Barber of Seville” in a picnic performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District on May 27, 2022 from 7-8:30pm. Free. 🇮🇹
A New York City Institution
New York City Opera was founded at New York City Center in 1943. Legendary New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia called it “the people’s opera” because like New York City Center, its mission was to present culture at a reasonable price. New Yorkers used to line up in the streets for opera. The company helped launch the careers of many famous opera stars.
The company moved to Lincoln Center in 1966. In 2011 it moved downtown. The company closed in 2013, but was resurrected in 2016 and continues to entertain New Yorkers.
It’s a small company now, but that gives it the freedom to do some really unique opera. It’s the people’s opera.