Met Guild publication to cease reviews of Met productions.
(Ed. Note: This story has since been updated, with the Metropolitan Opera issuing a press release stating that Opera News will continue to review its performances. Read more about it here.)
Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb has struck again, this time close to his own opera house.
Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb has struck again, this time close to his own opera house.
According to a report by Daniel J. Wakin in the New York Times, Opera News, the 76-year old publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, announced today that they will no longer be reviewing Metropolitan Opera productions. The decision comes following the Met's "dissatisfaction" with the magazine's reviews of recent Met shows, most notably its controversial, expensive production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
