"My name has to be on the list," said a youngish man in an Atari shirt. A policeman was shouting, "No more seats! No opera!" There was a lot of pushing and pleading, as at a rock show. Several thousand people were on hand, and several hundred others were trying to get in.
The cycle began in 1994, with a boisterous rendition of "Oberto," and ended this summer, with "Aida," "Otello," and "Falstaff." I saw the "Otello" on a sticky night in July. La Selva runs a company called the New York Grand Opera, which recently succeeded in presenting the entire Verdi canon, in Central Park, free of charge. According to "The Guinness Book of Records," Vincent La Selva, a native of Cleveland, is the only man ever to have conducted all twenty-eight operas of Giuseppe Verdi in chronological order.
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