Exclusive: The Met cancels two productions
OperaInsiders tell us the Metropolitan Opera has rowed back on plans to stage Handel’s Semele in the coming year.
The opera, an acrobatic co-production with Munich staged by Claus Guth and trumpeted by the Times as ‘A ‘Semele’ Bound for New York’. has vanished from current schedules and may have been kicked into long grass for financial reasons. (Or maybe fitness.) The cast inlcuded Allan Clayton, Jakub Orlinsky and Brenda Rae.
UPDATE: In the same round of cutbacks, the Met also scrapped Dvorak’s Rusalka for next season. A source tells SD: ‘All contracted artists are paid out their full fees to stay at home and not sing.’
Not a good look.
photo: Monika Rittershaus/Bavarian SO
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