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In operatic dispute, Met Opera director and designers order names stripped from ‘Carmen’
The creative team requested name removals after costly staging cuts projected to save $15 million this year amid Met Opera’s financial challenges.
- Carrie Cracknell's production opened in her Met debut, relocating Carmen and removing the Jaguar and two automated pickup trucks in the restaging.
- Peter Gelb, Met general manager, said the change was an economic decision, saving more than $300,000 while announcing 22 layoffs, salary cuts to 284 staff and reducing next season to 17 operas.
- Designers said the Met gave them one day to decide and rejected proposals like putting cars on the turntable; Carrie Cracknell, Tom Scutt, Guy Hoare, rocafilm / Roland Horvath, and Ann Yee asked to have their names removed.
- Set designer Michael Levine said, 'We were furious,' adding 'Now, of course, I don't trust the Met,' while Gelb said he hopes to repair the relationship despite cuts.
- A person familiar with planning said the Met intends in a future year to bring back Richard Eyre's retired production, which premiered Dec. 31, 2009 and ran 79 performances over six seasons.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In a dispute of operatic proportions, the production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera ordered their names stripped from…
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In operatic dispute, Met Opera director and designers order names stripped from 'Carmen'
The production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera demanded their names be removed from programs due to a restaging decision.
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In a dispute of operatic proportions, Bizet's "Carmen" production team at the Metropolitan Opera ordered that their names be removed from the programs due to a staging decision, and the company intends to bring back the scenarios of a retired version of 2009.
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