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Did AIDS Kill New York City Opera?
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No, a lack of self control is why AIDs spreads, so that would be the reason.
Just imagine if there was no aids, where the opera would be now
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wombat
"Did AIDS kill NYCO?" It's a lot more likely that crap like the performance you cite, "a Traviata where Violetta, the courtesan with a heart of gold, dies of AIDS," did so. (In that sense perhaps AIDS did kill it, or made a small contribution). People got tired of regietheatre nonsense and voted with their feet, and while perhaps the Met could withstand it financially, apparently NYCO could not. If anything the argument would be that the gay comm. is not large enough to fund opera on its own.
November 26, 2013