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re: The Case for Peter Gelb

Posted by: singleticket 12:02 pm EDT 08/06/14
In reply to: The Case for Peter Gelb - LegitOnce 10:55 am EDT 08/06/14
Good piece. Thanks for posting.

reviewing the production with the kind of wide-eyed horror usually reserved for coverage of “poor doors” in luxury apartment buildings.

Not sure what you mean here. The critics are shocked at the inequity of poor doors or shocked that anyone should challenge the gods of real estate in choosing to put them there?

The MET audience's reactionary aesthetics has always been a collaboration between the Parterre Box and the Family Circle. It's got deep roots in the populism of opera that came out of the European and Eastern European immigrant communities of nyc. It's part of what I've always loved about the Met. But that populism can get awfully phony and NY Post-like, monied conservatism speaking in or through an average Joe voice.


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