received critical praise in the past for its world premieres of work including Robert Ward's The Crucible and Anthony Davis The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The company opened its current season on September 17 with the opera Anna Nicole, and should it fail to raise the necessary funds by Monday, that could be the Company's last production. We need the help of the people we were founded to serve to put on our season this year, Steel said, speaking to New York residents and opera fans everywhere. We need you to come together and carry it forward into the future. I hope we can count on you. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the New York City Opera, which opened in 1943, making it the second opera house in NYC. The Metropolitan Opera was founded over 60 years earlier, in 1880.