The Met is now officially Second Hand Rose
OperaWe reported yesterday that all four contemporary operas in the Metropolitan Opera’s new season had their first staging – with all risks taken – in other US companies.
The plot now thickens.
Salome, one of the two non-contemporary new productions, was developed at the Bolshoi in Moscow.
Somehow, the Met forgot to mention that.
Still, what has New York come to when its major opera house cannot create a single new show on its own?
And why is the New York Times so supine it cannot put these questions to the general manager? Even the fanboy site is more critical.
Peter Gelb (pictured left) has been there far too long.
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