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• Music is Hard 46: New Journalism

  
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  This week: Peter Gelb, managing director of New York Metropolitan Opera, has had a rough couple of weeks dealing with journalists. What are the implications for new journalists covering the arts in new kinds of media? Link: Alex Ross: “Crack-up at the Met” download
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• Letter: The Value of Opera Reviews

  
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  An Opera Guild member says Metropolitan Opera officials should listen to critics.
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• Inching Toward Wagner

  
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  I recently went to a movie theater in Toronto to watch a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York of Wagners Gotterdammerung . Although Im familiar with Wagners four opera Ring Cycle, its been about five years since Ive heard one of them all the way through. The truth is Ive never been much of a Wagnerite. ...
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• Peter Gelb’s tyranny gets struck down by Met Opera fans

  
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  After the Metropolitan Opera chief Peter Gelb had forbidden his house magazine, Opera News , to review Met performances in the future (because an editorial had the cheek to comment negatively on some Met decisions) the management has done an abrupt about face, and issued the following statement: In view of the ...
  5 days ago

• Met Opera wont ban reviews by Opera News

  
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  Met Reverses Itself on Ban of Reviews by Opera News by Daniel J. Wakin , The New York Times , May 22, 2012 InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• Met Reverses Itself on Ban of Reviews by Opera News

  
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  Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, who has displayed sensitivity to criticism.
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• Justin Davidson on Peter Gelb’s Operatic Tyranny

  
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  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 ...
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• Metropolitan Opera Reverses Itself on Review Ban

  
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  The Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday backed away from its decision to bar reviews of its productions in Opera News, its affiliated magazine and the leading opera publication in the country. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, who has displayed sensitivity to ...
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• Natalie Dessay pulls out of next month’s Manon performances at La Scala “for health reasons” — Netrebko takes over

  
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  Natalie Dessay was forced to cancel, even mid-performance, performances of La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera last month, where she was replaced by soprano Hei-Kyung Hong. The conductor was Fabio Luisi, the Italian maestro heavily tipped to take over from the ailing James Levine . Now at Milan ’s Teatro ...
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• The Met censors…and loses

  
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  The Metropolitan Opera has decided not to allow Opera News , published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, to review any more Met performances. Unhappy with occasional negative (and sometimes quite pointed) reviews, the Met’s general director Peter Gelb pulled the plug on a tradition dating back the 1970s. From now ...
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• Well, that’s one way to solve the bad review problem…

  
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  … I guess the other way would be to put on better performances From the New York Times : Opera News , 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative ...
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• Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera

  
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  Opera News, 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative critiques. The decision by the magazine, which is published by a Met fund-raising affiliate, the ...
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• Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera

  
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  Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, who has displayed sensitivity to criticism.
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• Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

  
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  David Roberston conducted the Met Orchestra in a program with the violinist Christian Tetzlaff at Carnegie Hall.
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• Opera Singers Who Dine as Part of the Show

  
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  Aleksandra Kurzak as Gretel in a scene from “Hansel and Gretel” at the Metropolitan Opera.
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• 2nd Performance of Věc Makropulos at the Met

  
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  * Notes * The second performance of The Makropulos Case (Act III pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera) at the Met this season was held yesterday. The production, by Elijah Moshinsky, is fairly static. Some scene changes are made when only the orchestra is playing, and most of these are not ...
  3 weeks ago

• ArtsBeat: Jonas Kaufmann Withdraws From the Metropolitan Operas Die Walküre

  
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  Stuart Skelton will take over in Mondays performance.
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• ArtsBeat: Tenor and Violinist Receive Martin E. Segal Awards

  
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  The tenor Paul Appleby and the violinist Augustin Hadelich are named as winners of the 2012 Martin E. Segal awards, honoring emerging artists associated with Lincoln Center.
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• Tribeca ’12: Wagner’s Dream

  
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  It is the epic tale of a powerful ring that brings misfortune to all who seek it.  Sound familiar?  After technology advanced to the point Peter Jackson could finally do justice to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, it is not surprising the opera world might hatch some new ideas for Wagner’s Ring cycle.  However, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The last days of Rome

  
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  " WQXR pulled a blog posting critical of the Metropolitan Opera’s new “Ring” cycle last month after the Met’s general manager, Peter Gelb, personally complained to the radio station’s top executive ." reports Dan Wakin in the New York Times. WQXR is a New York classical radio station. According to the New ...
  3 weeks ago

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