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75th birthday with music and arts royalty at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday. He was treated to an evening of performances by the Kronos Quartet, Philip’s cousin Ira Glass and son Zack Glass, as well as conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies and...
David McVicar’s “Bolena” staging was crafted for the talents of the inimitable Anna Netrebko, of course, and she rejoins the cast for the two final performances of the season. Her impressive colleagues are Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen...
In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo, Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb speaks to the audience before the final dress rehearsal of "The Enchanted Island," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. "The Enchanted Island" had its world... View Photo »
Historically the participants in a production for the stage have always received compensation for the audio-visual commercial exploitation of their performances
But plans fell through early on when Mr. Wainwright, who co-wrote "Prima Donna" in French with Bernadette Colomine, refused to cede to Met General Manager Peter Gelb's condition that the libretto be in English."I do credit Peter and the Met with the...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Love Never Dies is about to be released in movie theaters. Do you think it’s possible to replicate the live theater experience at the movies? ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: I don’t think the skill to have been able to have done something...
Met's stage crew prepares for a production of Charles Gounod's Faust. Photograph taken from backstage looking out at the orchestra pit and auditorium. FORTUNE -- When Peter Gelb, who had been an executive at Sony Classical records, took over in 2006 as...
Members of the Metropolitan Opera, (L-R) general manager Peter Gelb, principal guest conductor Fabio Luisi, and conductor Gianandrea Noseda, attend a news conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2011. New York's Metropolitan Opera said May 31 two of its leading... View Photo »
Saturday night, is an entirely fabricated concoction based on the music of early 18th century composers written for a host of now mostly obscure, unknown operas, with a plot roughly based on two plays of Shakespeare and featuring two countertenors. It...
Maccabaeus.” The new words are by the librettist Jeremy Sams, who devised the story and assembled this fanciful, clever and touching pastiche by selecting arias, ensembles, choruses and dances from works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and lesser-known...
Peter Gelb (born 1953) is an American arts administrator. He is currently General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Full Article
The ceiling reflects the press conference held by General Manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb, bottom right, in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Two of the biggest stars of the Metropolitan Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Joseph Calleja, have pulled out of a Japan...
View Photo »Members of the Metropolitan Opera, (L-R) general manager Peter Gelb, principal guest conductor Fabio Luisi, and conductor Gianandrea Noseda, attend a news conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2011. New York's Metropolitan Opera said May 31 two of its leading stars have pulled out of a tour in...
View Photo »Members of the Metropolitan Opera, (L-R) South Korean tenor Yonghoon Lee, Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya, general manager Peter Gelb, principal guest conductor Fabio Luisi of Italy, Polish baritone Martiusz Kwiecien, Polish tenor Piotr Beczala, Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli,...
View Photo »New York's Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb speaks to the press in Tokyo on May 31, 2011 as the opera company will perform in Tokyo and Nagoya for their Japan tour. Russian soprano singer Anna Netrebko and Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja cancelled their visit to Japan since...
View Photo »General Manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb reacts during a press conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Two of the biggest stars of the Metropolitan Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Joseph Calleja, have pulled out of a Japan tour because they are afraid of...
View Photo »General Manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Two of the biggest stars of the Metropolitan Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Joseph Calleja, have pulled out of a Japan tour because they are afraid of...
View Photo »NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: (L-R) Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Film Festival Geoffrey Gilmore, Simon Ramsey of Rockstar Games, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Nancy Spector speak at the Disruptive...
View Photo »New York's Metropolian Opera members pose together for a photocall during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, June 6, 2011. The members from left to right; tenor Lee Youg-hoon, soprano Marina Poplavskaya, General Manager Peter Gelb, Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi,...
View Photo »The ceiling reflects the press conference held by General Manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb, bottom right, in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Two of the biggest stars of the Metropolitan Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Joseph Calleja, have pulled out of a Japan...
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