Wednesday, January 14, 2009
After only five months as Dallas Opera director, George Steel bails for New York City Opera
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The Board of Directors of New York City Opera has announced the appointment of George Steel as the company's new General Manager and Artistic Director. Mr. Steel is expected to assume his responsibilities as of February 1, 2009.
A respected, accomplished and innovative figure in the American performing arts, Mr. Steel is best known for his outstanding eleven-year tenure as Executive Director of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, from 1997 to 2008. Under his leadership, the theater became known as one of New York City's leading showcases for early and modern music and multi-disciplinary programming.
"George Steel is both a brilliant artistic producer and a highly effective institution-builder," Susan Baker, Chairman of the City Opera Board, commented. "He is also someone with a deep commitment to the historic mission of New York City Opera, in both its adventurous programming and its dynamic educational initiatives and audience outreach. We are confident that his strong, visionary leadership will take City Opera to a new level of artistic achievement and popular success."
"It is an enormous honor, and an enormous responsibility, to be asked to participate in building the future of New York City Opera," George Steel stated. "My goal is to help 'the People's Opera' renew its indispensable mission as an important producer of early opera, a proponent of American singers and new works, a force for rediscovering vital but lesser-known works, and an originator of visionary productions of classic repertoire."
Mr. Steel took primary responsibility for fundraising, financial and personnel management, marketing, publicity, and facility planning at the Miller Theatre, while programming 60 to 80 events a year in music, opera, dance, film, theatre, and intellectual discussion. He also initiated commissioning projects and developed collaborations with major national and international cultural institutions, including New York City Opera.
Mr. Steel, who is 42, became General Director of The Dallas Opera in October 2008. He is also known for his earlier work as Managing Producer of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street YW-YMHA (1995-97) and as the founder and conductor of two respected New York City music ensembles, the Gotham City Orchestra and Vox Vocal Ensemble.
Source: New York City Opera
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alexander troup Verified
The Dallas Opera came into its modern element around the late 1950's with Maria Callas, while after the 1980's, Dallas as an opera city and center, it is a hard thing to compeate with other musice type events,and hang with its once wonderful reputation that happend many decades ago ...it is a hard place for romance voice theatre for Dallas to exist in...A/T,..Opera observer.
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jtmbls Anonymous
W-T-Heck??? This is so disappointing with our new season in our new opera house just around the corner.
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alexander troup Verified
Yes it is telling of the red carpet of culture for the Dallas Opera, that has lost its bathrooom tokens to the homeless, that cannot go to the Arts District...then again is culture, not people,... homeless in Dallas,in terms of leaderdhips, orignality and the reality of what is good culture vrs what is Hot Pop culture..
These are two worlds..I have lived in,and you cant do the Blues in Opera, but you can try to make it Southern somthing...A/T, Shing dig at the Dallas Opera.
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Joel Woiton Verified
Dallas' historical musical culture is based on R&B and Country music. Opera is an artificial imported musical culture. Why we spend the time and money to build an opera or a symphony is wasted effort.
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alexander troup Verified
Joel, thanks... your on my intelligence list, it takes two to tango and in Dallas we need to know more about...what is culture or artistic clutter...A/T, An ear for silence.
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jtmbls Anonymous
If we went by your logic Joel, Americans would have to fly to another country all together in order to experience opera.
Although the Winspear Opera House will be the focal point of the Center, it is not the only addition going in. There will be several buildings built to serve the entire arts community, not just the Dallas Opera. The initial goal of the project was to open up the arts district to a broader range of people. Not sure how that is taking away from any "Dallas culture".
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alexander troup Verified
The Arts District City came about in the early 1980's, as one block of developement after another...while the D.M.A came into being around 1985/86, so did the present Meyerson Hall, leaving Fair Park,.. the Dallas Opera has been at the State Fair area since the 1930's including the Dallas Symphony which was organized by Harold Abhrams, of later named after Abhrams Rd.
The Arts District has had a very difficult an delayed growth and developement, due to.. too many other conflicting competetive cultural contenders in a consumer or higher mind cultural provenance...I sometimes observe....A/T, Red carpet for the Eagles..
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