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Peter Gelb: How I, I, I saved the Met

Peter Gelb: How I, I, I saved the Met

From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times:

I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new operas, but I had to take it relatively slowly or risk shocking our longstanding subscribers and patrons. It wasn’t until we were shut down during the pandemic that I seized the moment for some wholesale change.

That’s 3 uses of the first-person pronoun. And in the next paragraph two more:

I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new operas, but I had to take it relatively slowly or risk shocking our longstanding subscribers and patrons. It wasn’t until we were shut down during the pandemic that I seized the moment for some wholesale change.

And whoever imagined that opera was teamwork?

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