New York City Opera (Michael Capasso, General Director) will return to Bryant Park this weekend for its fourth season of operas as the centerpiece of Bank of America's Bryant Park Picnic Performance series, beginning this Friday, June 18 with NYCO's annual LGBTQ Pride concert, Pride in the Park; continuing on Friday, July 2 with a fully staged, hour-long adaptation of Bizet's Carmen; followed on Saturday, August 21 with a concert compilation of opera's greatest hits titled Now That's What I Call Opera; and culminating on Friday, September 3 with a newly created, 90-minute version of the Verdi favorite Rigoletto, to be conducted by Constantine Orbelian.