Syracuse Opera announces new management team and board members
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Christian Capocaccia (left), Julie Newell and Gregory Sheppard will assume leadership roles with Syracuse Opera for the 2021 season. Provided photos
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Syracuse Opera has added nine new members to their board of directors and has created an interim board driven management committee to oversee the day-to -ay operations of the company for the 2021 season.
Interim Managing Director Julie Newell, a Syracuse native, brings 35 years of combined experience as an operatic and concert performer, producer, and stage director, most recently leading the February 2020 Syracuse Opera production of “Candide” as stage director. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Voice and Opera at the SUNY Fredonia School of Music and has performed leading operatic roles in companies throughout the United States including world premier performances at Lincoln Center’s Alic
is it because going after him was so wrong in the first place, or because he made it so right with what information he offered up to mueller? who else does the memo implicate, by the way? let s bring in cuomo s court. asha rangapa. and jim shults. do you believe it is wrong to go after general flynn in the first case or do you think it s that flynn really did cooperate and provide value? i think it s clear from the filing, even with the redactions, that this is about flynn cooperating. as i mentioned on previous show last night, there is enough in that memo that s not redacted to demonstrate that flynn could have been charged with other crimes, like not registering as a foreign agent. so i think he got a good deal because of what he provided. all right. so, let s put up some of the avenues of intrigue here on the basis of the theory that flynn was helpful, okay.
they appreciated he s been cooperating. that s why he s getting a reduced sentence. no question about that. now, how does that relate to the president? well, there s no indication in the memo that it comes that it s directly related to the president of the united states. there s nothing in that that makes that leads you to that conclusion. and it also what else it doesn t do, it talks about russia and the things that he said to folks, and that were repeated. the lies that he said and that were repeated by others. and that s significant as well. but there s nothing in there as it relates to the president of the united states. but it does reference the transition team. it does reference the campaign. and that s significant, no question. asha, is the fact that it doesn t directly seem to address the president as satisfying and complete of analysis as it is for jim? i don t think so. so, first of all, behind those black bars are actual words, and we don t know what those words sa
there were reports that flynn had been in contact with the white house and those close to the president even after his dismissal. jim, you got anything on that? there s no indication that it was actually the president of the united states. that hasn t been verified. certainly would be significant and something the fbi and mueller s teams are looking at without question and have asked the questions. i think it s interesting, though, that, you know, he was never charged with conspiracy, which is, which is telling because if there was a there-there as it related to him and others, it would have been likely that he would have been charged with conspiracy as well. thereby, implicating others as part of that conspiracy. you didn t see that here. and i think that s fairly significant. what you also don t see is and what we don t know i agree with you 100%. we don t know what s behind those redactions, and that is incredibly significant as well. i think we all have to take a breath and
i also don t think that this means that a report is not imminent. i mean, he got there were questions submitted to the president of the united states that he responded to. right. we don t know whether there are going to be more questions or not. that s true. the fact the questions were asked is significant as if they re getting towards the end. a there are a couple things significant about the timing on that. one is that the trump legal team was dragging their feet on the questions. and what that allowed was mueller to have more time to develop the questions and the angles he d come out and what he was going to expect as the answers. i don t have to tell you two. in this situation, you rarely ask questions that you don t know the answer to. so it s about whether or not the stories will lineup. and now that we know that mueller believes manafort has been lying about things and that he came to that conclusion publicly after the president submitted his questions, it creates an i