Baitzel ran Los Angeles Opera, and was “the administrator on the scene. And he was much more. To get an idea of how much more, you need only look at the artistic profiles of Placido Domingo’s companies in D.C. and L.A. The former is conventional. L.A. Opera is anything but. In the six years that Domingo and Baitzel managed things, it grew faster than any other company in the country.”