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East Village’s Amato Opera to Close

After 60 years, the tiny independent opera house — founded by Tony and Sally Amato — will stage its last production in May. The theater, which was founded in 1948 and moved to the Bowery in the sixties, has seen the neighborhood go through a lot of changes over the decades, and it will be missed. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York]

East Village’s Amato Opera to Close