Peter Gelb era begins at the Met
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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The first New York appearance by the State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico had all the makings of an occasion.
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Leading the Met Chamber Ensemble on Sunday afternoon at Zankel Hall, James Levine performed seemingly equal measures of music by Schoenberg and his star pupils, Webern and Berg: two works each.
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Opening night at the Metropolitan  Opera will be open to all this year -- in a live broadcast at  New York's Times Square.
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NEW YORK  --  Sirius Satellite Radio and the Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that they will start a new channel to broadcast four performances a week during the company's 32-week season. It's part of the Met's vast media expansion under new general manager Peter Gelb.
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Philippe de Montebello, who has led the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 30 years, announced that he would retire at the end of the year.
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Alan Gilbert is part of a one-two punch of dynamic new conductors facing New York audiences this fall.
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Latvian Mariss Jansons gave his inaugural concert as the new chief conductor of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouworchestra (RCO), following in the footsteps of Riccardo Chailly, who had led the RCO for 15 years.
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A look at some of the candidates who are thought to be in the running for the job of director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Met plans to raise operaâs visibility, with help from other companies.
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Stars of the Metropolitan Opera stand backstage during the season&#39;s opening presentation of Umberto Giordano&#39;s &quot;Andrea Chenier,&quot; in this Oct. 15, 1962 file photo in New York.
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- On the opening day of his first general managers meeting as the man in charge of the Mets, Omar Minaya moved in a direction the Mets have long been avoiding.
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With new music directors at both companies, New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera are poised to prod each other into making New York a hotbed of operatic innovation.
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Sir Peter Hall brings Waiting for Godot back to the West End, more than 50 years after his original production.
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On Saturday Itzhak Perlman  brought recent alumni of his Perlman Music Program to the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the first event in a new three-concert series.
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Wasting no time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has formed a committee to begin an international search for a replacement for Philippe de Montebello.