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Peter Gelb, who recently has been asking the Met’s rank and file for salary concessions, had his own compensation bumped up 36% for the 2007-08 season.
According to Bloomberg News, Gelb earned about $1.5 million during his second year as the Met’s general manager. Since then he and the Met’s senior staff have taken 10% cuts.
What La Cieca finds particularly intriguing about the Bloomberg piece is that it reveals that Gelb still takes home a smaller paycheck than Joe Volpe did at the end of his Met incumbency. Uncle Joe’s final haul was $1.7 million for the financial year ending July 2006.
“I don’t think the argument is about how much he is paid, but how much he is asking people to pay back…”
It’s moot at this point because I don’t know of a single singer agreeing to or even answering the request for 10% donation, per AGMA’s instruction.
One-off gala concerts for the major artists at orchestras, etc., top out at about $50-75,000. That is the very highest tier.
No one is making Pav and Domingo fees any more, except Domingo.