It will start a season that extends to June 11, 2022, and includes six new productions. "I think that all of the performing arts in New York are in the same boat," he said.įire Shut Up in My Bones, a jazz work that premiered at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis in June 2019, is to open Sept. Met General Manager Peter Gelb said additional losses projected at $54 million US raise the total for the company to $154 million since the pandemic started. The orchestra's international tour next June also was wiped out. In all, 218 performances of 23 operas were lost, raising total cancellations to 276 since the 2019-20 season was cut short by the novel coronavirus on March 12. The season was supposed to start this week, but the company announced June 1 it had pushed back opening night until Dec. The company intends to return from the pandemic layoff next September with its first presentation of a Black composer, Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The Metropolitan Opera will skip an entire season for the first time in its nearly 140-year history.
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