Luc Bondy

'Rigoletto' At The Met Opera: Company Abandons Luc Bondy For Vegas Version

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.23.2012

NEW YORK -- The Metropolitan Opera has abandoned a new production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" by director Luc Bondy, whose grim version of Puccini's "Tosca...

Peter Gelb and His Met: No Booing Please

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Why All the Booing?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Kaiser

Making art is about taking risk. Embarrassing serious artists when they are taking important risks seems hardly a smart approach that will foster additional experimentation.

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

Alex Henry | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Milena Canonero, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Collaborates at the Metropolitan Opera

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Zohn

2009-09-21-zohnbox.jpg "In opera after the first night you don't know what will happen; it's a moveable feast!"