Boca Grande Woman's Club February Speaker: Paul Kellogg

Boca Grande Woman's Club February Speaker: Paul Kellogg
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Paul Kellogg, general and artistic director of the New York City Opera since January 1996, will speak at the February 6th Woman’s Club meeting. Kellogg is widely recognized as an arts administrator. He has been General and Artistic Director of Glimmerglass Opera since 1979, in which time that company's budget grew from $70,000 to $3.5 million. They have recently completed a $6 million capital campaign and have constructed their own nationally acclaimed theater designed by Hugh Hardy.

A native of Hollywood, California, Kellogg received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas. He spent the following years studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, and taught in a lycee

in the Lorraine under a French government grant while continuing his studies at the at the University of Nancy. He entered graduate school at Columbia University and began teaching French at the Allen-Stevenson School in New York, where in 1967 he was appointed Assistant Headmaster and then Head of the Lower School. Mr. Kellogg moved to Cooperstown, New York in 1975 to write, and three years later was asked to become General Manager (later General Director) of the Glimmerglass Opera. He remains Artistic Director of that Company. Kellogg has served on the Board of OPERA America, various panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a frequent adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Everyone is invited to hear Mr. Kellog speak immediately after the Woman’s Club meeting concluding about 2:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at the Community Center.