In December, a peculiar legal case was reported in The New York Sun.(On the Beat)(New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera in dispute over rights to sets and costumes for opera The Mother of Us All)(Brief Article)

In December, a peculiar legal case was reported in The New York Sun. Four months later, it has received practically no additional press at all, although it continues to drag on with no immediate resolution in sight. Through its attorneys, New York City Opera has formally protested San Francisco Opera's production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All. The reason: the SFO staging uses sets by ALLEN MOYER and costumes by GABRIEL BERRY--the same team of artists who provided the distinctive look of CHRISTOPHER ALDEN's production of the opera, seen at both Glimmerglass and City Opera.

City Opera insists that the rights to the designs are theirs, while SFO argues that Moyer and Berry own the rights and can ...