"Fiorello La Guardia called the New York City Opera 'The People's Opera.' The People's Opera and The Public Theater make sense together. Free Shakespeare in the Park is one of our great civic traditions, and to combine Shakespeare, with opera, outdoors, in the center of the greatest city in the world, for free, will make a beautiful sound." - Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis, announcing a joint ven…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:54AM on July 13, 2011