When Michael M. Kaiser took over the American Ballet Theatre, once home to Mikhail Baryshnikov, the company had no pointe shoes. At the Royal Opera House, a British landmark where Maria Callas had sung, he inherited a $30 million deficit. He arrived at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the... -
Kaiser's Sage 'Turnaround' Of the Arts
When Michael M. Kaiser took over the American Ballet Theatre, once home to Mikhail Baryshnikov, the company had no pointe shoes. At the Royal Opera House, a British landmark where Maria Callas had sung, he inherited a $30 million deficit. He arrived at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the...-
By Jacqueline Trescott