Absolutely Appalling - Nicholas Lederer

 “It would be absolutely appalling to imagine a city as great as New
York not being able to have two major opera companies,” said Kasper
Holten, director of opera at London’s Covent Garden. “If you look
London, if you look at Berlin, if you look at Moscow, if you look at
Vienna, they have two opera houses, and of course New York should have
two opera houses.”

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