they have so much in common it’s a phenomenon
La Cieca is perhaps a little slow on the uptake these days. Your dimwitted doyenne only just noticed (when it was pointed out to her, that is) that the conductor for Anna Netrebko‘s return to the stage at the Mariinsky on January 14 was Keri-Lynn Wilson. Ms. Wilson is of course not only a distinguished maestro in her own right, but, by the oddest sort of coincidence, related by marriage to an impresario with whose theater Ms. Netrebko’s career is very closely entwined. Small, La Cieca marvels, and funny! And fine?
Ms. Wilson did not conduct the City Opera Vanessa. That was Anne Manson.
Mrs. Gelb is connected by her agent Mario Dradi. The deal is: they get her important work, and Gelb gives their clients important work at the Met.