The Met “filled just 79% of the seats in that huge, red-velvet covered house, and made only 69% of their projected box-office revenue. For all the millions who watched the cinema broadcasts, those are astonishingly low figures for the world’s most expensive opera house.”
Tag: 02.13.14
Blogger Decodes Hidden Music In Hieronymus Bosch Triptych
Posting on her Tumblr, a self-described “huge nerd” called Amelia explained that she and a friend had been examining a copy of Bosch’s famous triptych, which was painted around the year 1500. “[We] discovered, much to our amusement,” she wrote. “[a] 600-years-old butt song from Hell.”
MoMA Won’t Save the Folk Art Museum, But It’ll Keep the Façade (Someplace)
“‘We will take the façade down, piece by piece, and we will store it,’ Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, said in an interview last week. ‘We have made no decision about what happens subsequently, other than the fact that we’ll have it and it will be preserved.'”
Levine Times Six at the Metropolitan Opera Next Season, Plus a Hot-Button Score
The company’s music director, still in his first season back after a two-year sick leave, will double his conducting load next season as his health continues to rebound. Also, the Met will stage a major contemporary opera that caused some ferocious public battles not all that long ago.
Ground Zero Arts Center Hires Artistic Director
“Executives developing a performing arts center at ground zero have hired a temporary artistic director from the Young Vic theater in London, one of a series of steps to be announced Thursday to advance a project that has long faced political and logistical hurdles.”