So Gelb’s response to criticism from Opera News is hardly surprising.īut yesterday something surprising did happen. Under pressure, Met Futures was taken down. And last year, the Met took offense to another website, called Met Futures, which attempted to predict upcoming Met casts.
Not to long ago, he strong-armed New York radio station WQXR into deleting a critique of the Met from its website.
Gelb has made his views on free speech known on previous occasions. the Opera Guild) should publish a magazine that passes judgment on the company’s productions. (See here.) And Gelb stood up to implicitly take credit for the decision, stating that he wasn’t happy that an organization whose purpose is to support the Met (i.e. On May 21, the New York Times reported that Opera News would no longer review Met productions.
That review was apparently the straw that broke the back of Met general manager Peter Gelb. Readers opened the magazine’s May issue to read a pointed criticism of the Met’s current regime: “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them.” And in a review of the Met’s production of Götterdämmerung, an Opera News critic wrote, “The haphazard staging had the effect of obscuring the piece itself it was hard to figure out from the visual evidence what kind of opera this was.” In recent months it’s been anything but a vehicle for pro-Met puffery.
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