In less than five years since Paul Kellogg has turned around the fortunes of New York City Opera. When he became the company’s artistic and general director in 1996, the company was $5 million debt, “had lost its sense of artistic direction and was coping emotionally with the death from AIDS of its previous director, the conductor Christopher Keene.” Now, in a miraculous turnaround, the debt is gone, and the company’s artistic purpose is clear. – New York Times