Rock solid reporting in Austria's Wiener Zeitung indicates that Gérard Mortier may very well never come to NYCO, after all, as was already divined by big sister la Cieca, what with the financial crisis and all. The paper will run more with the strange little Frenchman [Belgianman, whatevs] next week...
For now, Wiener Zeitung speculates the fallout for reasons that Mortier is dissatisfied with the low artistic standards of the NYCO (in comparison to the houses and festivals he's worked with in the past), the bad name that "Eurotrash" direction has in America, and the financial limitations that the struggling NYCO will put on his ~artistic visions~. Time to jump on your backcycle & backpeddle!