“I will do everything I can to move our art form along the evolutionary path. Will it be revolutionary? I hope so.”
So says President and CEO Deborah Borda in January’s Opera News.
The profile is a vivid snapshot of Borda in action at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, touching on her personal background, her hard-won insights from her successful career in orchestra administration, her bond with Music Director Jaap van Zweden, and defining work traits such as her intense preparation: “I give a lot of thought to what I do,” Borda says. “I always say, the best way to invent the future is to predict it.”
Read the article here.
(Photo: Dario Acosta)