On May 21, the New York Times reported that Opera News would no longer review Met productions. That review was apparently the straw that broke the back of Met general manager Peter Gelb. Readers opened the magazine’s May issue to read a pointed criticism of the Met’s current regime: “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them.” And in a review of the Met’s production of Götterdämmerung, an Opera News critic wrote, “The haphazard staging had the effect of obscuring the piece itself it was hard to figure out from the visual evidence what kind of opera this was.”
In recent months it’s been anything but a vehicle for pro-Met puffery.
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