Rebecca Miller’s family ties to the stage are now part of her onscreen inspiration.
The writer-director, whose father is playwright Arthur Miller, takes on the world of opera with her latest dramedy, “She Came to Me.” Peter Dinklage stars as opera composer Steven Lauddem, whose marriage to Patricia (Anne Hathaway) is one of the many stagnant aspects of his life. As Steven looks for creative inspiration, he finds a spark with a tugboat captain (Marisa Tomei) and a love triangle ensues. Hathaway’s character meanwhile is an Ocd-addled therapist with aspirations of becoming a nun.
Miller enlisted composer Daniel Felsenfeld and Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb to consult on the film for an authentic peek into the world of composers and opera. Lead actress Hathaway additionally produces the film, rounding out her slew of new releases this year with “Eileen” and “Mothers’ Instinct,” while currently in production on A24’s “Mother Mary.
The writer-director, whose father is playwright Arthur Miller, takes on the world of opera with her latest dramedy, “She Came to Me.” Peter Dinklage stars as opera composer Steven Lauddem, whose marriage to Patricia (Anne Hathaway) is one of the many stagnant aspects of his life. As Steven looks for creative inspiration, he finds a spark with a tugboat captain (Marisa Tomei) and a love triangle ensues. Hathaway’s character meanwhile is an Ocd-addled therapist with aspirations of becoming a nun.
Miller enlisted composer Daniel Felsenfeld and Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb to consult on the film for an authentic peek into the world of composers and opera. Lead actress Hathaway additionally produces the film, rounding out her slew of new releases this year with “Eileen” and “Mothers’ Instinct,” while currently in production on A24’s “Mother Mary.
- 8/17/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents Champion—an opera by Terence Blanchard, with a libretto by Michael Cristofer—featuring performances by members of the cast and a moderated discussion about the work’s forthcoming company premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Tickets available now at worksandprocess.org.
Champion
An Opera by Terence Blanchard
Libretto by Michael Cristofer
Monday, March 20, 7:30Pm
Tickets 35–45, Choose What You Pay
Experience highlights from six-time Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard’s haunting “opera in jazz.” Following their triumphant 2021 collaboration on Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, director James Robinson, and choreographer Camille A. Brown reunite with Blanchard to explore the life of boxer Emile Griffith. Blanchard’s first opera, Champion tells the story of Griffith’s rise from obscurity to world champion, his struggle with his sexuality, and how a knockout of a homophobic rival in the early 1960s led to tragedy.
Champion
An Opera by Terence Blanchard
Libretto by Michael Cristofer
Monday, March 20, 7:30Pm
Tickets 35–45, Choose What You Pay
Experience highlights from six-time Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard’s haunting “opera in jazz.” Following their triumphant 2021 collaboration on Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, director James Robinson, and choreographer Camille A. Brown reunite with Blanchard to explore the life of boxer Emile Griffith. Blanchard’s first opera, Champion tells the story of Griffith’s rise from obscurity to world champion, his struggle with his sexuality, and how a knockout of a homophobic rival in the early 1960s led to tragedy.
- 2/6/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
New York, NY – – See Me As I Am: Lincoln Center’s Year-Long Celebration of Terence Blanchard launches in March 2023, the first cross-campus exploration of a single artist. Following a long and deep relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center, and building off of 2021’s historic staging of Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones at The Metropolitan Opera and its forthcoming production of Champion, his work will be featured across Lincoln Center in a diverse and expanded range of art forms. A collaboration of seven arts organizations across campus: Film at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the year will feature jazz, opera, chamber music, orchestral music, film scores, dance, and more.
Portrait of musician Terence Blanchard at his home in New Orleans, LA.
“One...
Portrait of musician Terence Blanchard at his home in New Orleans, LA.
“One...
- 1/19/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Fathom Events and the Metropolitan Opera have renewed the “The Met: Live in HD” screening series, extending a cultural tradition that has delivered scores of performances from the Met’s stage at Lincoln Center directly to theater screens nationwide since 2006.
The partnership between the country’s largest performing arts institution and leading event-cinema distributor will be renewed for three more years, through the 2025–26 season, culminating in the 20th anniversary of the “Live in HD” program.
The announcement comes three weeks ahead of the Dec. 10 “Live in HD” transmission of a new work, “The Hours” by Kevin Puts, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham and the 2002 movie of the same title. The Met is presenting the world premiere staging of the work.
The partnership that began in 2006 with fewer than 100 theaters has grown to an average of 725 theaters and an estimated audience of more than 580,000 annually, according to representatives for both organizations.
The partnership between the country’s largest performing arts institution and leading event-cinema distributor will be renewed for three more years, through the 2025–26 season, culminating in the 20th anniversary of the “Live in HD” program.
The announcement comes three weeks ahead of the Dec. 10 “Live in HD” transmission of a new work, “The Hours” by Kevin Puts, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham and the 2002 movie of the same title. The Met is presenting the world premiere staging of the work.
The partnership that began in 2006 with fewer than 100 theaters has grown to an average of 725 theaters and an estimated audience of more than 580,000 annually, according to representatives for both organizations.
- 11/28/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Update The Metropolitan Opera has announced that it will “no longer engage with artists or institutions that support Putin or are supported by him.”
The announcement, made on the Met’s website in a brief video statement by General Manager Peter Gelb, comes several days after another major New York cultural institution, Carnegie Hall, announced that Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev, both longtime Putin supporters, would not participate in a performance of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra this past weekend.
In Gelb’s video statement, the general manager says, “While we believe strongly in the warm friendship and cultural exchange that has long existed between the artists and artistic institutions of Russia and the United States, we can no longer engage with artists or institutions that support Putin or are supported by him.” Gelb states that the new policy will remain in effect “until the invasion and killing has been stopped,...
The announcement, made on the Met’s website in a brief video statement by General Manager Peter Gelb, comes several days after another major New York cultural institution, Carnegie Hall, announced that Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev, both longtime Putin supporters, would not participate in a performance of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra this past weekend.
In Gelb’s video statement, the general manager says, “While we believe strongly in the warm friendship and cultural exchange that has long existed between the artists and artistic institutions of Russia and the United States, we can no longer engage with artists or institutions that support Putin or are supported by him.” Gelb states that the new policy will remain in effect “until the invasion and killing has been stopped,...
- 2/28/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In another blow to New York City’s hope of a cultural revival, the Metropolitan Opera Wednesday canceled its entire season and said it won’t open for a year.
“We regret to inform you that we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020–21 season, based on the advice of health officials. However, we are pleased to be able to announce the Met’s 2021–22 season, which will open Sep. 27, 2021,” the Met said in a tweet accompanied by a video with General manager Peter Gelb.
“As you can imagine, nothing makes us sadder,” he said. “This week should have been the triumphant start of a new season.” It’s the first skipped season in the Met’s nearly 140-year history.
“We want nothing more than to get back to the business of creating operatic magic for you… But the safety of our company and of you, the loyal audience we serve,...
“We regret to inform you that we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020–21 season, based on the advice of health officials. However, we are pleased to be able to announce the Met’s 2021–22 season, which will open Sep. 27, 2021,” the Met said in a tweet accompanied by a video with General manager Peter Gelb.
“As you can imagine, nothing makes us sadder,” he said. “This week should have been the triumphant start of a new season.” It’s the first skipped season in the Met’s nearly 140-year history.
“We want nothing more than to get back to the business of creating operatic magic for you… But the safety of our company and of you, the loyal audience we serve,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Citing safety concerns from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the New York Metropolitan Opera announced on Wednesday that it is cancelling its 2020-2021 season. The decision carries ominous implications for the return of the live music industry, which has been battered since the pandemic almost completely stalled what was supposed to be a record year for the business.
In a press release, the company said that with hundreds of performers in close quarters along with the Met’s audiences, resuming shows wouldn’t be safe “until a vaccine is widely in use,...
In a press release, the company said that with hundreds of performers in close quarters along with the Met’s audiences, resuming shows wouldn’t be safe “until a vaccine is widely in use,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Chef’s Table has become one of television’s most celebrated food-themed programs since it debuted in 2015, but there was a time the Netflix series faced an uphill battle getting made.
“Nobody wanted to hear a pitch about a food show without a celebrity host attached to it except for Netflix,” creator and executive producer David Gelb recalls. “I’m very fortunate they had the vision to let me come in and make the show with them, which is really unique in the food space with no host and no culinary instruction.”
Now in its sixth season, Chef’s Table is Emmy-nominated again this year for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Throughout its history, the show has focused each episode on a single chef.
“It’s about a biographical, emotional journey through a creative life,” Gelb explains. “The focus [is] on story, on passionate characters, on emotion and really looking at why chefs cook,...
“Nobody wanted to hear a pitch about a food show without a celebrity host attached to it except for Netflix,” creator and executive producer David Gelb recalls. “I’m very fortunate they had the vision to let me come in and make the show with them, which is really unique in the food space with no host and no culinary instruction.”
Now in its sixth season, Chef’s Table is Emmy-nominated again this year for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Throughout its history, the show has focused each episode on a single chef.
“It’s about a biographical, emotional journey through a creative life,” Gelb explains. “The focus [is] on story, on passionate characters, on emotion and really looking at why chefs cook,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Ex-conductor James Levine is suing the Metropolitan Opera for breach of contract and defamation after it fired him earlier this week following a sexual abuse investigation, the New York Times reports. In a lawsuit filed against The Met in New York State Supreme Court, Levin accuses the company and its general manager Peter Gelb of “brazenly” using “vague and unsubstantiated” accusations of sexual abuse “as a pretext to end a longstanding personal campaign to force Levine out of the Met and cease fulfilling its legally enforceable financial commitments to him.” He is asking for $4 million, according to the Times. Also Read: Metropolitan Opera Fires Conductor...
- 3/16/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The Metropolitan Opera has suspended James Levine after three men accused the famed conductor of sexually assaulting them decades ago as teenagers. The Met, which canceled the 74-year-old former music director’s upcoming dates, has hired an outside law firm to investigate the allegations. “While we await the results of the investigation, based on these news reports the Met has made the decision to act now,” Met general manager Peter Gelb told The New York Times. “This is a tragedy for anyone whose life has been affected.” Also Read: NY Public Radio Vows 'to Do More' After John Hockenberry Is Accused of Sexual.
- 12/4/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
New York's Metropolitan Opera says labor talks with its unions have been extended for an additional 72 hours, averting a threatened midnight lockout. Photos Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films The company announced late Thursday that the delay was requested by a federal mediator who had arrived just hours earlier to try to resolve the labor standoff. Thousands of company members had faced the prospect of losing their paychecks and health care at 12:01 a.m. Friday if company general manager Peter Gelb acted on his threat to lock them out. Photos 10 Highest Grossing Movie Sequels Gelb has demanded the Met's
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- 8/1/2014
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A major labor lock-out looming, a famous composer's opera facing scrutiny from those fearing it will incite anti-Semitism abroad: these days, the majority of the drama at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City seems to be happening not onstage, but offstage. Thursday night, the Met's contract with 15 unions will expire, and the organization's general manager, Peter Gelb, has threatened to lock out many of the company's workers--among them musicians, singers, and stagehands--if they do not acquiesce to new contracts with pay and benefits cuts. The Met's already facing weak box office sales, and a delayed start to the new season starting September 22 could be very troubling for the financially struggling institution. And, as the New York Times points out, the potential for damage lies not only in single tickets, but in the loss of subscriptions--a similar lockout in 1969 led to a major dip in subscribership. Both sides are preparing...
- 7/30/2014
- by Jacob Combs
- Thompson on Hollywood
Just In From the Musicians Union: Met Orchestra Musicians Blame Peter Gelb; Detail Plan to Save $20M
Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians today have commenced negotiations with Met Opera management including General Manager Peter Gelb. The union and the musicians released the attached report detailing the failed management and flawed artistic vision of Gelb during his 8-year tenure at the helm of the Met. The report analyzes the dismal reception of Gelb's expensive new productions by opera critics and patrons and also recommends specific strategies the Met could employ to save 20 Million annually by curtailing Gelb's lavish spending and realizing scheduling efficiencies.
- 7/25/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians are dismayed that Peter Gelb has pursued a cynical strategy calculated to result in a lockout of his artists and craftspeople and imperil the upcoming Met Opera season. His callousness, combined with his attempt to cover up his failed management and lack of artistic vision that has resulted in declining audiences and plummeting ticket sales, jeopardizes the livelihoods of his employees and the many businesses in New York City's cultural sector and the Lincoln Center area that depend on the Metropolitan Opera for their incomes.
- 7/23/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
All over Europe, people who had no idea that the Metropolitan Opera was planning to broadcast its new production of John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer in November have just discovered that it won’t. The opera, which deals with the terrorist hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise ship and the murder of an American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, has been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism ever since its 1991 premiere. There will be time when the production opens at the Met in the fall to chew over the work’s politics and prejudice. For now, the company’s general manager, Peter Gelb, prodded by the Anti-Defamation League, has decided that (a) no, it’s not anti-Semitic; (b) it’s a masterpiece; (c) it’s perfectly fine for the Met to perform it for its heavily Jewish audience (and donors); and yet (d) actually, it might be better if European audiences didn’t get another look,...
- 6/18/2014
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
The Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is concluding it’s seventh season. Featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s over the 2012-13 season, the final one is the broadcast of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00Pm Et / 9:00Am Pt)
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Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
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- 4/1/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As we head into March, the Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is in full swing in U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season.
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
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“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
- 2/27/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Wagner’S Dream The Metropolitan Opera Director: Susan Froemke Cast: Robert LePage, Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Peter Gelb, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, and the Metropolitan Opera Screened at: Dolby 24, NYC, 7/11/12 Opens: July 19, 2012 in NY; July 27, 2012 in L.A. Let me take a wild guess that more people have heard of Spider-Man than Götterdämmerung and that, further, more people have seen “Spider-Man-Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway this year than Richard Wagner’s 15-hour long Ring Cycle at the Met. What do they have in common aside from the sounds of music? Both productions embraced avant-garde staging that includes flying actors and singers. A month from its [ Read More ]...
- 7/13/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The close of the Metropolitan Opera season has given general manager Peter Gelb plenty of opportunity to mull the fate of oversensitive potentates. In Wagner’s Ring cycle, the god Wotan acts with intemperate stupidity, and four operas later, the world he has built collapses in flames. Critics reacted with jeers and disappointment to the Met’s $16 million staging, directed by Robert Lepage. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross memorably called it “the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.”Gelb, the son of former New York Times managing editor Arthur Gelb and a former publicist himself, knows a thing or two about the free expression of critical thought, and he doesn’t like it. There was nothing he could do about Ross’s words, but when outlets over which he had some leverage began repeating them, Gelb, like Wotan, lashed out. Earlier this month, he called Laura Walker,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Wagner's Dream comes true
Filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt, opera soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Jay Hunter Morris, Met's General Manager Peter Gelb on the red carpet
Wagner's Dream, the film about the opera cycle about "reaching the unattainable", is clearly one of the best movies in Tribeca 2012. The film's scope and clarity and joy will make people curious about opera who never had a dream about Wagner in...
Filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt, opera soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Jay Hunter Morris, Met's General Manager Peter Gelb on the red carpet
Wagner's Dream, the film about the opera cycle about "reaching the unattainable", is clearly one of the best movies in Tribeca 2012. The film's scope and clarity and joy will make people curious about opera who never had a dream about Wagner in...
- 4/28/2012
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
He has his critics, but Andrew Lloyd Webber is nothing short of a master at knowing what makes a musical a hit. After 25 years, Phantom of the Opera is the longest running show by a mile on Broadway and the third longest in London’s West End. At 63 and with 18 shows to his name, Lloyd Webber is still writing and producing for the stage without thought of slowing down. Last October, Phantom of the Opera was performed in a special 25th anniversary show at the Royal Albert Hall in London and next month that performance will be available on Blu ray and DVD.
- 1/26/2012
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW.com - PopWatch
Musicals have no problem attracing young audiences, while opera does. But is their respective appeal really so different, asks Live magazine writer Laura Blumenthal
'It's a lack of familiarity," Christopher Millard says. "They're less likely to have encountered it through their lives." Millard, head of communications at the Royal Opera House, is talking about that perennial problem facing opera companies – attracting a young audience. Whatever they do, it seems, the picture of the opera audience is fixed in the public mind: white, wealthy, ageing. Last week, Film&Music interviewed Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. By broadcasting the Met's operas to cinemas on both sides of the Atlantic, he explained, the Met has reduced the average age of its audience, from 65, to 62 or 63. So, when Roland Taylor, the English National Opera's director of participation, says attracting a younger audience is "very much a priority...
'It's a lack of familiarity," Christopher Millard says. "They're less likely to have encountered it through their lives." Millard, head of communications at the Royal Opera House, is talking about that perennial problem facing opera companies – attracting a young audience. Whatever they do, it seems, the picture of the opera audience is fixed in the public mind: white, wealthy, ageing. Last week, Film&Music interviewed Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. By broadcasting the Met's operas to cinemas on both sides of the Atlantic, he explained, the Met has reduced the average age of its audience, from 65, to 62 or 63. So, when Roland Taylor, the English National Opera's director of participation, says attracting a younger audience is "very much a priority...
- 12/16/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Manager Peter Gelb is leading the way in attracting a new, younger audience to New York's Metropolitan Opera, but at what cost?
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
- 12/9/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
New York (Reuters) - James Levine, the music director for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will be unable to conduct performances for the rest of the year because of a back injury, the organization said on Tuesday.
Levine fell and injured himself while on vacation in Vermont last week, according to the opera house.
As a result, Italian conductor Fabio Luisi has been named the Met's principal conductor, and he has canceled performances with the Rome Opera, the Genoa Opera, the Vienna Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony to accommodate his new role at the Met.
Luisi, who last year was named principal guest conductor for the Met, will conduct performances of "Don Giovanni," which premiers on October 13, and "Siegfried," on October 27, as well as the Met Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall on October 16.
"While Jim's latest setback is hugely disappointing for all of us, he joins me in welcoming Fabio's larger role,...
Levine fell and injured himself while on vacation in Vermont last week, according to the opera house.
As a result, Italian conductor Fabio Luisi has been named the Met's principal conductor, and he has canceled performances with the Rome Opera, the Genoa Opera, the Vienna Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony to accommodate his new role at the Met.
Luisi, who last year was named principal guest conductor for the Met, will conduct performances of "Don Giovanni," which premiers on October 13, and "Siegfried," on October 27, as well as the Met Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall on October 16.
"While Jim's latest setback is hugely disappointing for all of us, he joins me in welcoming Fabio's larger role,...
- 9/6/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Everett Soprano Anna Netrebko
Opera buffs breathed a sigh of relief when the Metropolitan Opera company said it will not axe its summer tour in Japan, following the March 11 disaster. But when the revered opera company touched down in Nagoya this week it was short two of its biggest stars: Anna Netrebko and Joseph Calleja who canceled at the last moment over radiation fears.
Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager, on Tuesday said the Met launched a frenetic search...
Opera buffs breathed a sigh of relief when the Metropolitan Opera company said it will not axe its summer tour in Japan, following the March 11 disaster. But when the revered opera company touched down in Nagoya this week it was short two of its biggest stars: Anna Netrebko and Joseph Calleja who canceled at the last moment over radiation fears.
Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager, on Tuesday said the Met launched a frenetic search...
- 5/31/2011
- by Yoree Koh
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Following on the heels of successful crossover moves into digital distribution for New York's Metropolitan Opera and London's National Theatre, "Memphis" will be the first ongoing Broadway show to beam a live performance into movie theaters nationwide.Broadway Worldwide, a company that acquires and distributes electronic rights to Broadway shows, will capture regularly scheduled performances of "Memphis" Jan. 18-21 at the Shubert Theater. Theatrical rollout is expected to begin in May, with exact dates and screen count to be announced.The filming will utilize five high-def cameras and 96 tracks of sound recording. Emmy-winning director Don Roy King will lead the production team.While the final performance of the long-running Broadway hit Rent was filmed for theatrical release, and "Legally Blonde: The Musical" was broadcast on MTV during its New York run, the decision to make "Memphis" available digitally represents an aggressive bid by producers to extend brand awareness in anticipation...
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
Lights, camera, arias! Sell-out shows bring in new audiences and serious cash for leading opera houses
Tonight, most British cinema audiences will be settling down with a Coke and a carton of popcorn for the weekend's big movies: the latest in the Narnia franchise, perhaps, or Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.
But not all of them. In around 80 UK cinemas, audiences will instead be preparing themselves for a performance, beamed in live by satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera, of Verdi's Don Carlos.
You'd be lucky to get a ticket though, despite the £25 price tag (reflecting the double cinema slot occupied by these often lengthy works). Tickets are sometimes snapped up in just two hours for a screening nine months away, according to Lyn Goleby, managing director of the independent cinema chain Picturehouse. "Opera in cinema is," she says, "a phenomenon."
The Royal Opera House, eager...
Tonight, most British cinema audiences will be settling down with a Coke and a carton of popcorn for the weekend's big movies: the latest in the Narnia franchise, perhaps, or Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.
But not all of them. In around 80 UK cinemas, audiences will instead be preparing themselves for a performance, beamed in live by satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera, of Verdi's Don Carlos.
You'd be lucky to get a ticket though, despite the £25 price tag (reflecting the double cinema slot occupied by these often lengthy works). Tickets are sometimes snapped up in just two hours for a screening nine months away, according to Lyn Goleby, managing director of the independent cinema chain Picturehouse. "Opera in cinema is," she says, "a phenomenon."
The Royal Opera House, eager...
- 12/11/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Booing -- an honored tradition you might have thought had disappeared at the Metropolitan Opera as finally as the echoes of bravos past -- is back. Luc Bondy's new Tosca reaped sustained hoots when the director joined the opening night cast at the curtain call a few weeks ago. Mary Zimmerman was resoundingly catcalled as she stepped out to link arms with Natalie Dessay after unveiling last year's La Sonnambula mangling. Not to mention last week's yowling after Daniele Gatti's Aida conducting. No, I'm not about to make a case for booing, though in theory I'm not against it. I sometimes think it's well deserved. What keeps me from supporting it as a response as worthy in certain situations as are applause and the epidemic standing ovation is that often those who've earned the boos...
- 10/7/2009
- by David Finkle
- Huffington Post
Eight new productions, four of which are company premieres, will highlight the Metropolitan Opera's 2009-10 season. General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director James Levine jointly announced plans that include: the Met premieres of Rossini's Armida, Verdi's Attila, Jan?ček's From the House of the Dead, and Shostakovich's The Nose; new productions of Bizet's Carmen, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Thomas's Hamlet, and Puccini's Tosca; and 18 revivals from the company's repertory. The season is the first to be entirely planned under Gelb's leadership, in collaboration with Levine (the past three seasons were planned before Gelb became General Manager in 2006-07 but included some productions, repertoire, and casting changes made by Gelb).
- 2/10/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The financially strained Metropolitan Opera isn't waiting for the fat lady to sing to slash staff salaries by 10 percent this year - and some blame the Met's budget crunch on its $1 million-a-year general manager, Peter Gelb, and his massive ego.
"Peter Gelb is the most hated man at the Met . . . He himself received a 30 percent raise, but he has only volunteered to give back 10 percent," said one source. Gelb is said to have caused the company's financial crisis by mothballing audience favorites staged by popular directors like Franco Zeffirelli and producing too many new operas,...
"Peter Gelb is the most hated man at the Met . . . He himself received a 30 percent raise, but he has only volunteered to give back 10 percent," said one source. Gelb is said to have caused the company's financial crisis by mothballing audience favorites staged by popular directors like Franco Zeffirelli and producing too many new operas,...
- 1/21/2009
- NYPost.com
Veteran director Franco Zeffirelli has been honoured for helping to "shape the history" of New York's Metropolitan Opera with the 12 productions he created for the legendary institution.
The Metropolitan Opera House will be staging three Zeffirelli productions this season, including Puccini's La Boheme, which debuted on Saturday.
Italian Zeffirelli, 85 - who made his Met debut in 1964 with his take on Verdi's Falstaff - appeared onstage during the interval alongside the full Boheme cast, and was greeted with a standing ovation.
Met General Manager Peter Gelb told him, "Franco, we're honoring you tonight in front of your adoring fans," adding that "Franco Zeffirelli shaped the history of the Met".
A visibly overwhelmed Zeffirelli responded, "I feel so extremely moved by your extraordinary welcome... I am speechless with all the emotion - and the commotion!"
The Met is turning to more modern productions, but this week (ends04Apr08) the focus will be on Zeffirelli pioneering work of the past four decades.
The Metropolitan Opera House will be staging three Zeffirelli productions this season, including Puccini's La Boheme, which debuted on Saturday.
Italian Zeffirelli, 85 - who made his Met debut in 1964 with his take on Verdi's Falstaff - appeared onstage during the interval alongside the full Boheme cast, and was greeted with a standing ovation.
Met General Manager Peter Gelb told him, "Franco, we're honoring you tonight in front of your adoring fans," adding that "Franco Zeffirelli shaped the history of the Met".
A visibly overwhelmed Zeffirelli responded, "I feel so extremely moved by your extraordinary welcome... I am speechless with all the emotion - and the commotion!"
The Met is turning to more modern productions, but this week (ends04Apr08) the focus will be on Zeffirelli pioneering work of the past four decades.
- 3/30/2008
- WENN
The Metropolitan Opera and In Demand Networks have inked a deal to bring all eight new performances from the Met's second season of "Metropolitan Opera: Live in High Definition" to on-demand subscribers in the U.S.
The Met's series of opera performances are transmitted worldwide into movie theaters, and each show will be available within 30 days of its theatrical release to on-demand subscribers in both standard and high-definition formats.
"With this agreement, we are creating the opera equivalent of a Hollywood movie rollout," Met GM Peter Gelb said. "I think opera fans will be thrilled to play our movie theater transmissions at home on their own schedules."
The on-air schedule kicks off with the Met's production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" on Jan. 16. The production stars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna and is conducted by Placido Domingo.
Other operas slated for release through In Demand Networks are Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel", Verdi's "Macbeth", Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" and "La Boheme", Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", Britten's "Peter Grimes" and Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment".
"The Metropolitan Opera made international headlines last season by bringing the magic of its performances to movie theaters worldwide," said In Demand Networks president and CEO Robert Jacobson.
The Met's series of opera performances are transmitted worldwide into movie theaters, and each show will be available within 30 days of its theatrical release to on-demand subscribers in both standard and high-definition formats.
"With this agreement, we are creating the opera equivalent of a Hollywood movie rollout," Met GM Peter Gelb said. "I think opera fans will be thrilled to play our movie theater transmissions at home on their own schedules."
The on-air schedule kicks off with the Met's production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" on Jan. 16. The production stars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna and is conducted by Placido Domingo.
Other operas slated for release through In Demand Networks are Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel", Verdi's "Macbeth", Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" and "La Boheme", Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", Britten's "Peter Grimes" and Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment".
"The Metropolitan Opera made international headlines last season by bringing the magic of its performances to movie theaters worldwide," said In Demand Networks president and CEO Robert Jacobson.
- 11/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Channel on Thursday announced plans to produce a new shortform series titled "Grey Goose Presents the Next Garde," which will be comprised of 12 first-person profiles of emerging talent including writers, musicians and designers.
The personalities featured will be novelist Nicole Krauss, artist Vik Muniz, architectural design team AvroKO, museum director Thelma Golden, musician Duncan Sheik, storyteller-poet Rives, graphic designer Jakob Trollback, clothing designer Doo Ri Chung, Metropolitan Opera manager Peter Gelb, production designer Lauri Faggioni, philanthropist Jacqueline Novogratz and entrepreneur Jared Kushner.
The one-minute vignettes will run as interstitial pieces on Sundance Channel beginning Saturday and will be available on sundancechannel.com throughout the month.
The personalities featured will be novelist Nicole Krauss, artist Vik Muniz, architectural design team AvroKO, museum director Thelma Golden, musician Duncan Sheik, storyteller-poet Rives, graphic designer Jakob Trollback, clothing designer Doo Ri Chung, Metropolitan Opera manager Peter Gelb, production designer Lauri Faggioni, philanthropist Jacqueline Novogratz and entrepreneur Jared Kushner.
The one-minute vignettes will run as interstitial pieces on Sundance Channel beginning Saturday and will be available on sundancechannel.com throughout the month.
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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