He not only ran the administrative side of the AOS, but also served the company as stage director, program annotator, libretto translator and score editor.
The two young men founded the AOS in 1950 initially as an organization to perform Renaissance music and baroque operas in the space for which those works for written, in the homes of the rich.
These smaller concerts quickly became so popular that the AOS had to move to increasingly larger venues, ultimately using Carnegie Hall as the company's home.
As such, the AOS presented many operas to the American public for the first time, including the United States premieres of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, George Frideric Handel's Hercules and Hector Berlioz's Les troyens to name just a few.
Singers who make their New York debut with AOS included Teresa Berganza, Montserrat Caballé, Eileen Farrell, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maureen Forrester, Marilyn Horne, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Joan Sutherland, and Jon Vickers among others.