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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
The Met Opera’s Quest To Balance Old And New Is Literal
Fast Company: Before you complain about the insane hours of your job, Peter Gelb has you trumped: the general manager of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera has a 24/7 clause in his contract, which means he has to be available whenever to deal with whatever.
This article comes with a surprise with the description of Peter Gelb general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City who has a 24/7 clause in his contract. Though this article isn’t about the general manager of the Opera and his hectic life, I wonder how this part of his job influences his contributions? I feel like one way to keep art relevant is to continually see art and travel and I wonder how much of this part of his life is hindered by the clause? I understand that changing the art form into someone more palatable to a wider audience is one way to keep the Metropolitan Opera alive but I wonder what else they could/should be doing? Besides doing modernizations of opera’s and producing new works is there other ways to be innovative? Can opera’s use new media equipment and new methods of doing opera sets to be innovative as well? Modernizing in this way would definitely attract a new audience. The Met hopefully will work out a solution.
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This article comes with a surprise with the description of Peter Gelb general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City who has a 24/7 clause in his contract. Though this article isn’t about the general manager of the Opera and his hectic life, I wonder how this part of his job influences his contributions? I feel like one way to keep art relevant is to continually see art and travel and I wonder how much of this part of his life is hindered by the clause? I understand that changing the art form into someone more palatable to a wider audience is one way to keep the Metropolitan Opera alive but I wonder what else they could/should be doing? Besides doing modernizations of opera’s and producing new works is there other ways to be innovative? Can opera’s use new media equipment and new methods of doing opera sets to be innovative as well? Modernizing in this way would definitely attract a new audience. The Met hopefully will work out a solution.
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