| re: James Levine passed away over a week ago | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 09:56 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:39 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: James Levine passed away over a week ago - larry13 08:52 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
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| I can't speak to the old house. I don't know much of its history. But the new Met was big, it had a huge repertory, it hosted major singers, it broke boundaries in terms of singers of color. But as a house and in terms of its international reputation it lacked an artistic guiding principle until Levine. The New York Times review of Levine's Met debut says it all. Allen Hughes of The New York Times wrote that Mr. Levine “may be one of the Metropolitan’s best podium acquisitions in some time.” The Met made acquisitions but it lacked an artistic persona. Levine gave the Met a guiding artistic agenda by putting the house on the map internationally as a dependable exemplar of orchestral opera performance. Now, if artists could also be humble, decent human beings at the same time as being gifted and driven, that would be a wonderful world. |
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