The man who saved the Ballet: A conversation with Mikko Nissinen (Part I)
Mikko NissinenMikko Nissinen assumed the artistic directorship of the Boston Ballet in 2001, when he was only 39. At that time the organization was in seeming disarray - compromised artistically and distressed financially. And it has endured crises since - it even lost its performance home, the Wang Center, amid the budgetary shocks of the Great Recession that descended in 2008.But today, on the verge of …