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Peter Gelb and His Met: No Booing Please

David Finkle | Posted 10.11.2009 | Entertainment

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David Finkle

What occurs to me about the booing is that it might begin to color attitudes towards the Met under Peter Gelb for whom this 2009-10 season is the first with no vestigial ties to Joseph Volpe.

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

Alex Henry | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York

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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