The Week in Review

More fallout on City Opera: The saga of New York City Opera's departure from Lincoln Center continues. At a press conference last week, George Steel, City Opera's general manager unveiled the company's plans for next seasons, which will include productions of La Traviata and Rufus Wainwrights' Prima Donna at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House; Cosi fan tutte at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College; and the rarely seen Telemann work Orpheus at El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio. Next summer sees a pair of Shakespeare-themed operas - titles to be announced - performed for free at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. It's typical of the controversy swirling around the company these days that, even as the announcement was being made at the Guggenheim Museum, protest were being staged just outside.

Steel maintained his cool under severe questioning by the media. Among the point he made repeatedly were, a.) the company is out of money and had to do something drastic to survive, and b.) this is a rare opportunity to hear operas in more intimate theatres.

In the meantime, the game of hopscotch has begun. On Friday, the Paul Taylor Dance Company announced it was decamping from City Center to the David H. Koch Theatre, taking advantage of the scheduling hole created by City Opera's departure.

And in the latest news, the New York Times reported on Friday that two of City Opera's board members, the conductor Jonathan Sheffer and Roy L. Furman, a financier and producer, have resigned. This follows the resignation of Joyce Castle, the soprano from the board a few weeks ago.

Cheap Trick stage collapse: A number of people were injured when the stage collapsed on Sunday evening during a performance by Cheap Trick at the Ottawa Bluesfest, the Times has reported. A thunderstorm struck the stage, causing collapse to happen. The band members are unhurt, although, according to the Associated Press, at least three audience members experienced serious injuries A video of the collapse can be seen at, at YouTube.

The concert year so far: Pollstar has issued it study of the concert industry for the first half of 2011. Among other things, it found, "Crunching the numbers of our Top 50 Worldwide Tour charts shows a cumulative gross of $1.65 billion, a $166.2 million or 11.2 percent, jump in total gross-dollar ticket sales when compared to the first six months of 2010. However, total ticket sales throughout the world declined by 2.1 percent, resulting in 19.4 million tix sold for the 50 biggest tours during the first half of 2011." You can find more food for thought here