Thursday, January 14 06pm
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just below 65th Street, New York, NY 10023
Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In their new history of the company, the first in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire, bringing to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful “Live in HD” simulcasts, and raising the issues that confront the company today.
Free admission but early arrival is recommended.
http://www.lincolncenter.org/