Moody’s slaps the Met for ‘soft box office’

Moody’s slaps the Met for ‘soft box office’

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norman lebrecht

March 14, 2016

The credit rating agency has maintained its negative-outlook status for the Metropolitan Opera, despite a rabbit-out-of-hat $1 million budget surplus in September 2015 and rosy projections from Peter Gelb.

The problem seems to be ‘some softness in box office revenue’ when compared to budget projections.

That would be those 30-40 percent houses we have been reporting lately.

Read Moody’s assessment here.

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Comments

  • AMetFan says:

    No comments…complete apathy at this point.

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