The Metropolitan Opera 2023/2024 season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2023-24 season featuring seven new productions.
New Productions
Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Latonia Moore, and Susan Graham star in the Met premiere of Ivan van Hove's production of Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking.” Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Steven Osgood will make his Met debut conducting two performances.
Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 21, 2023
Anthony Davis’ “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” directed by Robert O’Hara, makes its Met premiere with Will Liverman as Malcolm X, Leah Hawkins as Louise, and Malcolm’s wife, Betty Shabazz, Kazem Abdullah conducts.
Performance Dates: Nov. 3-Dec. 2, 2023
Ailyn Perez leads Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” in its Met Premiere. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this Spanish-language opera by the Mexican composer Daniel Catán. The cast also stars Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, and Mario Chang.
Performance Dates: Nov. 16-Dec. 14, 2023
Aigul Akhmetshina and Clémentine Margaine star in the title role of “Carmen,” with co-stars Piotr Beczała, Michael Fabiano, Kyle Ketelsen, Ryan Speedo Green, Ailyn Pérez, and Angel Blue leading a new production by Carrie Cracknell. Daniele Rustioni & Diego Matheuz conduct.
Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2023-Jan. 27, 2024 & April 21-May 25, 2024
Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” stars Elena Stichina, Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Ekaterina Semenchuck, and Igor Golovatenko in this Mariusz Treliński production, co-produced with Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
Performance Dates: Feb. 26-Mar. 29, 2024
The Met premiere of John Adams’ “El Niño” stars Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines, with J’Nai Bridges, Daniela Mack, Key’mon W. Murrah, and Siman Chung in this Lileana Blain-Cruz production. Marin Alsop conducts.
Performance Dates: April 23-May 17, 2024
Revivals
Verdi’s “Requiem” will star Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Matthew Polenzani. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
Performance Dates: Sept. 27-30, 2023
Verdi’s “Nabucco” stars George Gagnidze and Liudmyla Monastyrska in this Elijah Moshinsky production. Daniele Callegari conducts.
Performance Dates: Sept. 28, 2023-Jan. 26, 2024
Federica Lombardi, Anita Hartig, Olga Kulchynska, Heidi Stober, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Stephen Costello, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Polenzani, and Adam Plachetka, and Alexey Markov star in Franco Zeffirelli’s magical production of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Maestros Carlo Rizzi and Marco Armiliato conduct.
Performance Dates: Oct. 10 2023-Jan. 13, 2024
Charles Castronuovo headlines Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” with Olesya Petrova, Elena Stikhina, and Quinn Kelsey. Carlo Rizzi conducts.
Performance Dates: Oct 20-Nov 18, 2023
Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” returns with Andreas Schager and Elza van den Heever in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Ekaterina Gubanova is Venus. Donald Runnicles conducts.
Performance Dates: Nov. 30-Dec. 23 2023
“The Magic Flute” will be presented in Julie Taymor’s production with Janai Brugger and Liv Redpath as Pamina. Joshua Blue, Rolando Villazón, Alexander Birch Elliott, Patrick Carfizzi, William Guanbo Su, Brindley Sherratt, and James Cresswell round out the cast.
Performance Dates: Dec. 8 - 30, 2023
For “Madama Butterfly,” audiences will see Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleonora Buratto, and Asmik Grigorian alternating as Cio-Cio San. Elizabeth DeShong, Eve Gigliotti, Jonathan Tetelman, Matthew Polenzani, Davide Luciano, and Lucas Meachem round out the two casts. Xian Zhang and Derrick Inouye share conducting duties.
Performance Dates: Jan. 11 - May 11, 2024
“Turandot” will be conducted by Oksana Lynic and Marco Armiliato, with Elena Pankratova and Christine Goerke sharing the title role. Aleksandra Kurzak and others will perform the role of Liù while Roberto Alagna and SeokJong Baek alternate as Calaf.
Performance Dates: Feb. 28 - June 7, 2024
For “Roméo et Juliette,” audiences will see Benjamin Bernheim, Nadine Sierra, Samantha Hankey, Frederick Ballentine, Will Liverman, and Alfred Walker. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
Performance Dates: March 7 - 30, 2024
Angel Blue, Emily Pogorelc, Jonathan Tetelman, and Bekhzod Davronov star in “La Rondine.” Speranza Scappucci conducts.
Performance Dates: March 26, 2024
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” stars Brittany Renee, Latonia Moore, and Ryan Speedo Green. Evan Rogister conducts.
Performance Dates: April 8 - May 2, 2024
“The Hours” gets a revival with Joyce DiDonato, Kelli O’Hara, and Renée Fleming. Kensho Watanabe conducts.
Performance Dates: May 5 - 31, 2024
Closing out the Metropolitan Opera season will be “Orfeo ed Euridice” with Elena Villalón, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Ying Fang. Christian Curnyn conducts.
Performance Dates: May 16 - June 8, 2024.
(Text by operawire.com/julia-bullock-l...)
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Alex

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@enriquerivera3140 Жыл бұрын

I am so excited to see Florencia en el Amazonas, the first mexican opera and sung in spanish on the Met stage 😍

@MrQwerty88 Жыл бұрын

Not the first Spanish language though: The Spanish opera 'Goyescas' by Enrique Granados had 5 performances at the Met in 1916. Manuel de Falla's 'La Vida Breve' was performed in 1926. Maria Barrientos performed 3 Spanish songs at the Met in a concert in 1916. Concert of Spanish music Songs at the Met in 1926.

@BellaFirenze Жыл бұрын

Esta no es la primera ópera mexicana. Por seguro es la primera ópera mexicana presentada en este teatro.

@enriquerivera3140 Жыл бұрын

@@MrQwerty88 Did not know that but it´s good to either, but always an opera in our native language is something to be happy

@paragod333 Жыл бұрын

I don't speak Spanish, but I certainly love "Florencia". I have seen three different productions....all in Houston and all wonderful. I just wish Ana Maria Martinez was in the cast, in either of her two roles.

@pcoffey1 6 ай бұрын

why?

@renatafriedenberg4292 Жыл бұрын

THANK you for video.

@nonocoollll Жыл бұрын

La Rondine is my favorite opera so I'm definitely looking forward to that !

@chgem.2658 Жыл бұрын

Much too much modernized productions. Just interested in Tannhäuser, Bohème, Turandot and Rondine.

@tomgoodman5140 Жыл бұрын

I will definitely see Tannhauser. Very attractive, traditional staging. Nothing else here excites me enough to get on a plane to NY. I saw Lohengrin this month and it was amazing. I wish they would stage more Wagner in general. Unless it's over-the-top eurotrashy I'll see it.

@georgesclermont1911 Жыл бұрын

I'm with you for the scarcity of Wagner but I thought the Lohengrin was awful.

@vittoriodipaola1375 Жыл бұрын

Totally agree about Wagner

@biancacastafiore8760 Жыл бұрын

unfortunately the staging for Tannhäuser is so old that it now looks so dark and shabby. it’ll be a good performance for the ears but not visually.

@richardallen3810 9 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Was at the Bayreuth Festival in Aug for the Ring and 3 others. Yikes,what nightmare productions.

@H.M.K. Жыл бұрын

Really not a fan of new production of Carmen

@TheBeverly7 Жыл бұрын

True

@kennethwayne6857 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't look that promising but let's wait and see it first. At least the singers will be good.

@NYCOPERAFAN Жыл бұрын

The standard repertoire casting is mostly quite mediocre, except for the Tannhauser.

@davidbastardo4154 Жыл бұрын

Mostly weak American singers. Yawn.

@ransomcoates546 10 ай бұрын

The Decline and Fall of a once glorious art form.

@santividal9387 Жыл бұрын

You guys are complaining about lots of contemporary operas and here I am in Madrid 😂

@markbeck8384 Жыл бұрын

A rich season. I loved The Hours. I am excited by Forza, Florencia. Like the casting,

@BellaFirenze Жыл бұрын

The Metropolitan Opera is planning on slashing some of its 2023 performances and refocusing on contemporary works after a decrease in ticket sales and donations. In addition to tapping into its $306 million endowment after a dip in ticket sales and donations, as reported by the New York Times, the opera house is also planning a renewed focus on contemporary productions, which have become more popular in recent years. Popular among who?

@theartstraveler Жыл бұрын

People who buy tickets.

@janetflier6192 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed “The Hours”!

@BellaFirenze Жыл бұрын

@@janetflier6192 Va bene.

@SteveL2012 Жыл бұрын

They could try adjusting their ears for good singing, then audiences might start to return. Probably too late-too many years of Netrebko, Goerke, Rodvanovsky and the like. Fans have just given up.

@DianaBee620 Жыл бұрын

I like to go out with a tune I can hum

@michaelagrain2776 Жыл бұрын

No Sonya? No Sondra?

@Katharsis44-091 Жыл бұрын

They are both singing in München.

@TheKayaklover Жыл бұрын

What can I say but the same thing I told my friend that works at The Met Chorus.?? .... The Metropolitan Opera WAS , in one word, GRAND !!! ... It is NOT anymore !! ... I will NOT attend any longer until you make it GRAND again !!!!!!

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

No company around the world is grand anymore. People forget Opera is very expensive to produce. The money simply isn’t there anymore.

@brynjarhoff-lr6hw Жыл бұрын

Well,it seems that Metropolitan not always have the best singers….there is more to listen to in Europa..

@frostyhamster3116 Жыл бұрын

This is just a meh season. The best singers would still prefer the met over the small theaters in Europe.

@simonkawasaki4229 Жыл бұрын

SO MUCH looking forward to La Rondine with the STUNNING Angel Blue, and also La Forza, which is FINALLY coming back to the Met, even though the production looks ugly albeit thought-provoking. Also excited for Nabucco and Un Ballo. I see the Met is going for the "Underperformed-but-not-TOO-underperformed" Verdi route.

@Dylonely42 10 ай бұрын

Are you planning to upload the full score of Un Ballo in Maschera in the future ? Thanks.

@simonkawasaki4229 10 ай бұрын

@@Dylonely42 Good guess, I DEFINITELY 100% will upload it, after La Boheme, La Wally, Luisa Miller and I Due Foscari.

@jaydoggy9043 Жыл бұрын

I think i twas a poor choice to not include any comedies. The Magic Flute is its sole choice this year and it's right around Christmas where I can't take a vacation in my job.

@terryhammond1253 10 ай бұрын

The Met is wisely trying to extricate itself from being a museum house by doing new and challenging work. Good luck to them.

@stuartlee6622 10 ай бұрын

They think by doing black, the blacks will rush to the Met. Ain't gonna' happen, dears.

@tl266 10 ай бұрын

Agreed! The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all

@philcoppa 10 ай бұрын

first time I've noticed 'euro trash'. Good description.

@marghorayeb5928 2 ай бұрын

Quelle puissance Tannhäuser !!!

@UghyArt Жыл бұрын

Can’t wait ❤️🥰

@dianaaljadeff2983 Жыл бұрын

Strange season with many contemporay operas.Lets wait

@barbarachmielewska Жыл бұрын

Six new productions, not seven.

@AlexanderJuliusLeventov Жыл бұрын

You are right, thanks. Unfortunately, the Met Opera postponed Rolando Villazón’s ‘Sonnambula’, which would have been the seventh new production of the new season.

@kennethwayne6857 Жыл бұрын

@@AlexanderJuliusLeventov For which I hear some of the Met chorus are relieved. Some consider it the most difficult opera for the chorus.

@laprimmadonna2341 Жыл бұрын

Pues, no sé qué decir…títulos nuevos, óperas contemporáneas. Hay tantos títulos que han desaparecido del repertorio actual, como La favorita, la donna del lago, el Mefistófeles de Boito…en fin…podría seguir nombrando. Por otra parte, sigo sin saber por qué el Met se resiste a Saioa Hernández. Su Leonor de Vargas es sinceramente una interpretación muy notable. En fin, mis mejores deseos para los cantantes, productores, directores, músicos, que todos los títulos salgan muy bien y que el público disfrute esta nueva temporada. Gracias por compartir.❤❤❤❤❤

@octaviohernandez18 Жыл бұрын

Me pregunto lo mismo acerca de Saioa, me parece que el Met está durmiendo en cuanto a esta soprano dramática--pierde la audiencia.

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

She’s been invited but turned it down

@jennetal.984 Жыл бұрын

Why Villazon as Papageno again? smh

@johnkulus7812 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for adding to the repertoire; not just sameold, same old that seems to keep the Larry Wong’s of the opera world ( all 231 of them) out of the line waiting forcheeeep seats.

@robert111k Жыл бұрын

A season without Oropesa, Rebeka and Hernandez? Meh.

@gaddovarzi6980 Жыл бұрын

Capperi che programma... In Italia ci fai cinque cartelloni...

@lorenzorossi6567 Жыл бұрын

Tra l'altro tutte produzioni costose. Però non vedo un filo logico che lega queste scelte

@michaelbegley8388 Жыл бұрын

When is the MET board going to wake up and can Gelb and hire a competent GM? This season is really poor; what a waste to replace a perfectly good Carmen production with, what appears to be, a Euro-Trash monstrosity. Weak casting in most of the productions. SOME contemporary opera is fine; Dead Man Walking certainly deserves to be done (and MAY be revivable), and The Hours did sell-out business. Has it ever penetrated Gelb’s thick skull that the productions that continue to be revivable are reasonably traditional productions (such as Turandot, Boheme, Tannhauser).

@jackhamm1745 Жыл бұрын

And Aida! But they are replacing that grand production with some downsized Eurotrash craptacular. +

@paulotosi6091 Жыл бұрын

Desapontadora essa temporada.

@Katharsis44-091 Жыл бұрын

YES !

@olegbelyakov7317 Жыл бұрын

The magnificence of MET is boundless!

@georgesclermont1911 Жыл бұрын

Magnificence such as Turandot, Bohême are past their BBD.

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

@@georgesclermont1911 That’s your opinion,not a fact.

@y.s320 Жыл бұрын

I don't like this staging.

@jamesa0330 Жыл бұрын

Staged for cameras not the Met house. You can costume opera singers in contemporary clothes but unless the director helps rid them of stock 18th century gestures it looks incongruent. Finally, the singers being put in such intimate poses leaves them no option but to be constantly looking for conductor monitors. Its just bad theatre from a director who has no clue how to stage singers, but hey ho what would Peter Gelb know about directors.

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

Excellent and appunto!

@qsilverboy01 Жыл бұрын

No Die Frau ohne Schatten .....

@sterlinglewis5700 Жыл бұрын

With the possible exception of Lise Davidsen, there is nobody around who can do justice to this work. I admit I am totally spoiled: I had the great good fortune to see Leonie Rysanek and Birgit Nilsson as 'Frau' and 'Dyer's Wife' respectively, in a 'fairy tale' production. Now, there's a video circulating where the 2nd act takes place in a laundromat. ...And then 'they' wonder why people stay away...

@qsilverboy01 Жыл бұрын

@@sterlinglewis5700 just before the pandemic, there was Concertante performance of Die Frosch in Rotterdam, I was there and enjoyed it. Amsterdam was planning to do the production in the Opera house. But then pandemic came, all cancelled. Now I saw that several productions and concerts of Die Frau in Germany. I was hoping that Met will pick it up, but apparently not next year.

@markcombrinck-hertz3649 Жыл бұрын

hi mark

@lucabaldo8195 Жыл бұрын

Costumi e scene troppo moderni: perdete spettatori. Siate più aderenti alla partitura

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@joecivitano 9 ай бұрын

*YAWN....sad to see the continuing demise of a once legendary opera house. Somewhere Rudolf Bing is crying......

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

Where was Peter Mattei's Don Giovanni? Nothing else would induce me to return to NY...except, of course, a $100 million Human Rights award...

@daniloyrocioserranobarrene8695 10 ай бұрын

This video reaffirms my decision to stop attending staged opera as it has become a horrible spectacle. I used to travel to the NY once a year for a week of beautiful opera, but as I hate eurotrash and Gelb turned my beloved Metopera into "Met-trash", that's the end of it. Sad... sad...

@ewmbr1164 Жыл бұрын

Meh.

@larrywong4966 Жыл бұрын

What an insult to opera lovers. It is really dumbing down what an Opera experience could be. The productions are thin, lack soul and real opera tradition. Will not be wasting my time or money at the Met.

@yiqianwang3155 6 ай бұрын

Like problem with other art forms, not truly against a modern presentation to classics, but could they create something new than just use a new bottle for old wine? Could they brew new wine instead? There is a reason a classic exists in their classic way. It’s like the “politics right “ to put black people into those classic white role, it’s more like humiliation than an honor, since those producers are so lazy to dig the black culture and historic value to make them shine in their unique way! It’s against art value and humanity.

@mariyaorishko5399 Жыл бұрын

Let’s do it contemporary opera as contemporary. Please, don’t turn traditional, classical to modern (decor, costume,so on) looks ridiculous and corny. Better find good sopranos singers, some times more screaming then singing, no “o” round sounds ( except Vagner s soprano). Many suggest characters , so call new visions, are puzzling! Must be Quality against “ surprise me”. It is not circus.

@auntiezy4008 Жыл бұрын

Im sorry but this season is a big meh

@samlichtenstein2754 10 ай бұрын

What opera shows were you hoping to be performed at the Met?

@stuartlee6622 10 ай бұрын

I agree.

@Katharsis44-091 Жыл бұрын

Rather dissapointing.... Maybe Romeo et Juliette with Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim would be nice.....

@WannabeBackbencher Жыл бұрын

If anyone wants to know why opera is a suffering art form, look no further than this comment section. Stuffy conservatives with absolutely no vision for the future. Normal people want new stories. This is how the great opera houses will survive, by trying new things. We can’t just keep playing the same 15-20 shows for decades and expect people to stick around.

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

Opera is suffering because of the economy. Opera is very expensive to produce. The money simply isn’t there anymore.

@victoriadiesattheend.8478 Жыл бұрын

I do agree that new things must be tried; THAT is how opera became what it is, by people writing new pieces and the people seeing what was being made. Its madness to be like, okay, all the great opera has been written! Let's stop here and only repeat what's been made! So I am very interested in contemporary opera, as long as all the same love and effort and work goes into it, and musically it MUST meet the standard. I'm considering seeing The Hours this season, just too good to miss.

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

@@samueljaramillo4221 The budget appears to be directed mainly toward monstrous sets and overblown costumes... I love Opera for the music, the "heart," the passion... If I want overblown art I'll go to the Guggenheim...

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

@@samueljaramillo4221 Well, fond as I am of theatre "techies," and like to see them employed the set designs are out of control. A head line in the NY Times Arts section way back in the 80s commented on the dominance and domineering sets and included the memorable line: "exit, humming the sets..." It's just gotten worse.

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

All is see here is complain, complain, complain. One hundred persons, one hundred different opinion. People want to see this or that. They like this singer, don’t like that one. People seem to forget the world is going thru global economic problems. Opera is very expensive to produce. Theaters don’t have the money they used to have. Government subsidies are being slashed. Patrons don’t have the money they used to donate. How many of you out there make a sizable donation to any theater? I’m afraid the money to produce lavish grand productions is not there anymore. And any of you complaining about theater company managers not know how to do their jobs. Or how to plan a season. You know less.

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

Actually many of us are on the same page here...

@davidbastardo4154 Жыл бұрын

Anodine, soulless and chavista garbage of a season. At least Tannhäuser has a nice cast.

@papagen00 Жыл бұрын

too woke for me, I'm going to skip next Met season.

@stuartlee6622 10 ай бұрын

Me, too!!

@georgesclermont1911 Жыл бұрын

OMG, Zeffirelli, Shenk, Alagna, etc. Way past their BBD.

@alexandradaniele Жыл бұрын

Are you kidding? Boheme and Turandot are the last remaining Zefirelli productions and they are magnificent! If Gelb f**ks with those, I'm paging Tony Soprano!

@biancacastafiore8760 Жыл бұрын

it’s amazing how much money it costs to put on such a mediocre and lousy season. gelb only got his job due to his father and sills. what a joke. che disastro.

@samueljaramillo4221 Жыл бұрын

Your the joke

@DeirdreMcNamara Жыл бұрын

Mr. Yellow - in more ways than one!

@Mooseman327 Жыл бұрын

The Met goes Woke and will go broke.

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

Going woke gets rid of the Republicans in the audience, even if they're not sure what it means ... so, all in all, a good move

@octaviohernandez18 Жыл бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubon But will the woke audience attend?

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

@@octaviohernandez18 woke is a fiction invented by the GOP to scare their braindead cult

@Mooseman327 Жыл бұрын

@@octaviohernandez18 No, they won’t and that’s why the Met will go broke. But, at this point, who cares?

@jackhamm1745 Жыл бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubon 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Bravissimo!

@barrymorentz5190 Жыл бұрын

The Met is signing its death knell. If it is wondering why attendance is down significantly all it needs do is re-examine the dreary season it is planning. It spends millions on contemporary works that have no staying power and quickly disappear, or it creates nonsensical productions like the idiotic Faust or the mercifully canned Las Vegas Rigoletto. I shudder to imagine on the basis of what it has shown here what the new Carmen and Forza will look like. Yes, give new works a chance but in a much smaller house. One saving grace will be the appearance of the fabulous Jonathan Tetelman.

@jgesselberty Жыл бұрын

Nail firmly hit on head. People who plunk down some major money to see an opera, want all the pomp and grandeur that go with it. Modern, shoestring productions that look like they got the sets from a back alley are not cutting it. The critics love them, but the opera goers do not. New works should recieve attention, but should prove their worth in smaller venues before being mounted at the Met. The string of new productions in this season does not bode well for the Met and the lacklustre programming is a turn-off. A single Wagner. Not one Strauss. No Russian works. But, plenty of woke.

@octaviohernandez18 Жыл бұрын

Add La Sonnambula, Manon Lescaut, and the recent Lucia--cannot agree with you more. Opera is theater, as much entertainment as escapism.

@barrymorentz5190 Жыл бұрын

Gelb should take a lesson from Boheme and its longevity.Although I have seen it enough times by now it nevertheless is emblematic of the magic we want from opera. I’ll be damned before I would spend $150 to suffer through Marnie or The Exterminating Ángel, or worse, the insane Brett Dean Hamlet or the lobotomizing Ughenaten.

@jrock2720 Жыл бұрын

From a 1992 article in the NYT Magazine on Philip Glass titled A Persistent Voyager Lands at the Met: Sixteen years ago Philip Glass stood in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and looked out on a full house for his first opera, "Einstein on the Beach." In the parlance of the time it was "a very downtown event," which played with a non-Met cast on two Sundays when the company did not perform but wanted to keep the building open. "Who are these people?" a Met administrator asked Glass, surveying the decidedly arty crowd. "I've never seen them before." Glass shot back, "Well, you'd better find out who they are, because if this place expects to be running in 25 years, that's your audience out there." My first visit to the Met was back in June to see a contemporary work, "Akhnaten". I brought my family and it was a transcendent performance. I have since seen several works (one live and the rest on demand) with plans on seeing more this upcoming season. As Philip Glass predicted, the Met will not survive unless it brings in new audiences. The Met had to tap their endowment to the tune of $30 million and despite your objections, contemporary works are outselling the classics; "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" and "The Hours" drew sellouts; “Don Carlo" sold 40% of the house. The way to sustain the Met going forward is to get people interested in opera and contemporary works will do that more effectively than a classic from a prior century.

@davidbastardo4154 Жыл бұрын

@@jrock2720 Good luck to them. They will become even more provincial and irrelevant than the English.