Mass exodus warning for the Met’s opening night

Mass exodus warning for the Met’s opening night

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norman lebrecht

September 20, 2016

The opening production of Tristan and Isolde, conducted on Monday by Simon Rattle and sung by Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, has suffered an unfortunate clash with the first Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton TV debate.

Bloomberg reports: Julie Macklowe, founder of skincare-products maker vbeaute, is splitting her evening, starting with Wagner’s tragic love story and then leaving Lincoln Center “to catch the slugfest” before the final act. “There will probably be a mass exodus out of the opera then,” she said.

There could also be a similar walkout from the live simulcast crowd on Times Square.

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