Peter Gelb

The Artist Vs. The Critic

Howard Sherman | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Theatre, Theater, Criticism, Critics, Reviews, Theater Critics, Metropolitan Opera, The Australian, Met Opera, Met Opera Opera News, Opera News Reviews, Opera News, Peter Gelb, Officer and a Gentleman, Culture News
Howard Sherman

Artists writing to newspapers to complain about reviews is hardly a new phenomenon. However, in my experience, it's an impotent gesture at best and a counterproductive one at worst.

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How 'The Ring' Was Staged

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Die Walkure, The Ring Cycle, Deborah Voigt, Opera, Susan Froemke, Met Opera Ring Cycle, Metropolitan Opera Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner Ring Cycle, Video, Gotterdammerung, Das Rheingold, Peter Gelb, Wagner Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Wagner's Dream, Met Opera, Robert Lepage, Siegfried, Culture News

When Richard Wagner wrote his Ring Cycle, did he dream of a giant steel machine twisting and sliding on stage? Probably not. But the Metropolitan O...

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Director David Gelb Talks About Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Michelin Stars, Jiro Ono, Peter Gelb, David Gelb, Michelin, David Gelb Interview, Sukayabashi Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Tokyo, Sushi, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Jiro Dreams of Sushi focuses on Jiro Ono, unassuming and routine-driven despite being proclaimed the greatest sushi chef in the world.

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Amy Lee

The Mash-Up Of The Opera World

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Baroque Opera, Peter Gelb, Met Opera, Placido Domingo, Enchanted Island, Jeremy Sams, Danielle Di Niese, Slidepollajax, The Enchanted Island, Baroque Music, Enchanted Island Opera, Enchanted Island Met, Culture News

Famous singers, a score that plays like a mash-up of greatest hits and a plot that takes two famous romances and mixes them together -- no, it's not t...

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Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.22.2011

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Mike Ragogna

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Amy Lee

The Met Brings Opera To The Movies

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 10.29.2011

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Richard Nixon is watching ballet in Beijing with Chairman Mao as wife Pat Nixon looks on with her hands clasped to her face. A young girl is beaten un...

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Metropolitan Opera RACKING UP Expenses

New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc Culture, Metropolitan Opera, Opera, Peter Gelb, Metropolitan Opera House, New York News

Opera lovers are buzzing that the enormous cost of the upcoming productions of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" could bankrupt the Metropolitan Opera, which ran ...

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OPERA: CultureZohn (Singing in the Streets)

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Wadsworth, Metropolitan Opera, Die Walkure, Anna Netrebko, Deborah Voigt, Lincoln Center, Le Comte Ory, Bart Sher, Fashion Week, La Traviata, Peter Gelb, Times Square, Don Carlo, Boris Godunov, Das Rheingold, Juan Diego Florez, Robert Lepage, Nixon in China, Stephanie Blythe, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-09-27-rheingoldbox.jpgThe Metropolitan Opera offers proof that the double dealing, back-stabbing, larger-than-life emotion of Wagner rivals any of our great governmental dramas.

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Make Nice or I Quit!

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Wadsworth, Metropolitan Opera, State Department Bureaucrats, Boris Godunov, Peter Stein, Work Visas, Modest Mussorgsky, Valery Gergiev, Peter Gelb, Arts News
Ivan Katz

When Peter Stein and the Metropolitan Opera attempted to flesh out the back story behind Stein's withdrawal from a new production of Boris Godunov, the formerly mysterious story became utterly incomprehensible.

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WATCH: OPERA: Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb Opens Up To HuffPost

Posted 05.25.2011

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New York's Metropolitan Opera, run by General Manager Peter Gelb, is at the forefront of bringing opera into the modern era. With their Live in HD pr...

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Madness at the Met: Slatkin vs. Gheorgiu, Round Two

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Giuseppi Verdi, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Gelb, La Traviata, Angela Gheorgiu, Style News
Ivan Katz

The Met seems to have embraced the old Hollywood Star System and is now milking it for all its worth.

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Things Must Be Really Bad!

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, 30 Million Dollar Gift, Peter Gelb, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

The Metropolitan Opera just got a $30 million gift. "It came at a time when the Met is sorely in need of cash," Peter Gelb, the Met's general manag...

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Featured Doer: Peter Gelb

Posted 05.25.2011

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In a way, Peter Gelb has come full circle. He worked as an usher at the Metropolitan Opera in his teenage years. Nearly four years ago, he was appoint...

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Tosca in Times Square, or, the Piazza di Nuova York

Alex Henry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Metropolitan Opera, Karita Mattila, Tosca, Times Square, Luc Bondy, San Pellegrino, Peter Gelb, Franco Zeffirelli, New York News
Alex Henry

Having gone just to witness the scene, I stayed for the second and third acts, foraging for some pizza and Pellegrino at one of the intermissions to complete the Italian effect.

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Bless This House

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman MacAfee

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.

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