Ryan Tracy for New York City Opera Directorship Hosts Press Conference to Introduce “A Way Forward: A Rescue Plan for New York City Opera” FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009, 4:00pm-5:30pm Location: The Center for Work-Life Policy, 1841 Broadway, Suite 400, Entrance on West 60th Street, Opposite the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, (MAP) Contact: Michael Hart, Campaign Manager [...]
Give To New York City Opera…?
Hello, everyone! I sat down with my Campaign Action Force yesterday for a nine-hour meeting. While fine tuning the original 12-step program to recovery into more well-developed and practically shaped policies (which will be released soon), we began to discuss how we would go about raising money for a New York City Opera in financial [...]
Counter Critic Is New York City Opera
Contrary to what you may find in this embarrassing and half-baked attempt to suck money from the general public, when it comes to the subject of who, exactly, is New York City Opera, there is but one emphatic answer: I am. Now we’re playing hardball. BACK TO CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
The Not So Short List
Since announcing my candidacy for the directorship of New York City Opera, my team has worked hard and tirelessly to flesh out a not-so-short list of nominees for the proposed para-advisory board that will help me reshape the future of New York City Opera. We have cast a wide net in order to ensure that [...]
And in THIS corner!…
So, umm, rumor has it that New York City Opera may have decided upon George “The Animal” Steele to be it’s (we don’t need another) hero. Umm, I don’t know what’s more emabarassing. The fact the NYCO is picking a former professional wrestler to lead a major opera company, or that I could take this [...]
Cover Girl
HDivas – For The New York Press THE MET’S HI-DEF SIMULCASTS ALLOW THOUSANDS TO EXPERIENCE “LIVE” OPERA IN MOVIE THEATERS AROUND THE WORLD. BUT RYAN TRACY DISCOVERS POPCORN DOESN’T SOUND GOOD TO EVERYONE The single empty seat for the high-definition simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s 125th Anniversary opening-night gala (stick with me here) was in [...]
Leggo My Bel Canto
On Friday, Anthony Tommasini took a moment, in a hot piece on new technologies in opera, to parenthetically lament the current sate of affairs at The New York City Opera: (Remember the good old City Opera, nearly dormant and badly struggling right now?) Never fear, T-Bone. CC is here. Since my announcement, I’ve received some [...]
C.C. for New York City Opera Directorship
Counter Critic for the Directorship of The New York City Opera “A Key-Change We Need” [Update: WATCH VIDEO] Preamble I hereby announce my candidacy to assume directorship of The New York City Opera. In these uncertain times, artistic organizations need stalwart leadership that will provide vision, direction, and most importantly, thought that isn’t lodged in [...]
“The Christ in Me” and “The Bagwell in Me”: A comparative analysis
Below, you will find a post that I prepared weeks ago but didn’t get around to finalizing. It’s a revisit to Ann Liv Young‘s “The Bagwell in Me.” It’s a kind of mega-rant, full of twists and turns, perversities, theories, doubts, and, as always, criticisms. I know this makes me officially obsessed with her work, [...]
Get Your CRACK On
Are you depressed, like me, about not having any money this holiday season to shell out for fancy tickets to a real live production of The Nutcracker? If so, then Ovation’s “Battle of the Nutcrackers: Grudge Match” just might be what the total global meltdown ordered. Below, find probably one of the best commercials I [...]
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