Peter Gelb
Peter Gelb
Peter Gelbis an American arts administrator. Since August 2006, he has been General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City...
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Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.
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I intend to honor its great traditions and its loyal audience while hopefully arriving at the right formula of exciting new artistic initiative that will fill its seats well into the future.
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I've told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and willing to do so here. I think the Met is the luckiest opera house in the world to have him as its music director and I hope that he will be at the center of its artistic life for the foreseeable future. It would be a terrible blow for me and my plans if he was not here.
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What I'm not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that's how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.