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43 comments

• florezrocks says:

  hey! the article says that the Met is announcing its 09-10 season on Tuesday!

  Do they have enough time to replace every tenor except JDF with Piotr?

  on February 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
• Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  This is Ms Guided, I AM Ciy Opera, how may I help you? No, Mr. Steele is out in the field. May I take a message? “King Arthur and Esther won’t do what?” Please sir, there’s no need to use such language. (click)

  on February 8, 2009 at 4:09 AM
• Regina delle fate says:

  Haha Florezrocks – I hope not or no other houses will get to see him. I think he’s down for next season’s Boheme revival at Covent Garden – the first Rodolfo I’ve actually looked forward to seeing there in something like ten years. Well, apart from Rolando when he jumped in for someone forgettable.

  on February 8, 2009 at 5:26 AM
• Jay says:

  TT article = 1,500 words of blather. Absolutely nothing new in the piece.

  on February 8, 2009 at 7:46 AM
• Ian says:

  Well nothing new if you follow specialist press, but for the Sunday Reader of the NYT Arts section it’s a fairly good summary of the situation facing NY and opera in general.

  on February 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM
• jatm2063 says:

  Jay #4: That’s true. It has all been thoroughly talked out here on Parterre already.

  on February 8, 2009 at 9:18 AM
• Drammy says:

  This is definitely olde but

  “At the Met, the 54-year-old Gelb isn’t the only employee making a comfortable living. The unionized master carpenter, Stephen Diaz, earned $533,450 in salary and benefits, while his boss, technical director Joseph Cark, pulled in a slightly more modest $445,852.”

  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&refer=home&sid=aQMAiIMkMDyM

  No fair, hein?

  on February 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM
• SanderO says:

  Gelb reminds me of a corporate CEO in that his actions are aimed at his money people, the glamor and not the lovers of opera. The product of his company doesn’t matter as much as the celebrity aspect and using that to bring cash in.
  The Met is probably over $250MM operation and so we see that this is very much a big business and he navigates comfortably in the same milieu that CEOs and top management do. They use the public’s love of operate to build their egos and power base.

  Lovely.

  on February 8, 2009 at 10:14 AM
• Sarah says:

  Piotr is singing “Faust” next fall at the Lyric – can I justify going even though I just saw it with Paul Groves? Um, that would be a YES.

  on February 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM
• Drammy says:

  Darn, that means I’ll have to somehow make it over to the Lyric as well!

  on February 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM