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Because the New York City Opera’s new general manager and artistic director, Gérard Mortier, won’t take over full-time until 2009, a distinguished stand-in has stepped into that role: NYCO board chair Susan Baker (MBA ’76). After a highly successful career in finance, Baker now devotes most of her time to board work with other cultural institutions, although “it’s clear that NYCO will take up the lion’s share of Baker’s time in the near future,” declared the Opera News (September 1, 2007).
In an interview, Baker noted that the NYCO was founded in 1943 by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, during a time when a wave of cultivated European immigrants was arriving in New York and America.
“La Guardia believed that it was very important to provide this audience with an enormously high quality of opera, and that it should be accessible, innovative, and wonderful,” Baker said. “If you go back and look at what City Opera has done over the years, there’s been enormous innovation here. It was and is a thinking person’s opera company.”
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