The Fiery Angel
He became one of the City Opera's leading directors, creating such important productions as Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel", Verdi's "La traviata" (with Patricia Brooks and Plácido Domingo), Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", Robert Ward's "The Crucible" (featuring Chester Ludgin), Gounod's "Faust" (with Beverly Sills and Treigle), Borodin's "Prince Igor", Janáček's "The Makropulos Affair" (with Maralin Niska), Lee Hoiby's "Summer and Smoke", Cherubini's "Médée" (in the Italian version), Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" (with Carol Neblett), Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen" (in designs by Maurice Sendak) and Bizet's "Carmen".