Peter Gelb: How I, I, I saved the Met

From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times:

… I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new operas, but I had to take it relatively slowly or risk shocking our longstanding subscribers and patrons. It wasn’t until we were shut down during the pandemic that I seized the moment for some wholesale change.

That’s 3 uses of the first-person pronoun. And in the next paragraph two more:

Now and in the coming seasons, the Met, taking inspiration from the heyday of Puccini, is presenting more new and recent work than it has for a century — operas with rich melodic scores and contemporary story lines. And I’m proud to say that the average age of our single-ticket buyers, which was in the mid-60s when I began, is now 44.

And whoever imagined that opera was teamwork?