Making her Met debut, Nathalie Stutzmann will conduct both new Mozart productions. “But I certainly think that day seems to be visible.” “We’re not going to do it unless it feels right,” he said. Gelb said he expected the mask mandate would be eliminated sometime this spring as infections continue to decline. The company, which has not missed a performance this season, has imposed some of the toughest public health rules in the industry, including booster vaccine and mask mandates. To weather the crisis, the Met is relying largely on emergency gifts from patrons Gelb said the company has raised $122 million in such gifts since last summer.
The Met estimates it could take several years before box-office revenues return to prepandemic levels, as the tourism sector recovers. But it remains well below the average of 75 percent before the pandemic.
“We have to keep opera and the art form as exciting and as dynamic as we possibly can.”Īttendance so far this season has been better than expected, hovering around 64 percent. “The one thing that the Met cannot afford to do is to sit back and hope people will come to us,” Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager, said in an interview. The need to draw audiences has grown only more urgent during the pandemic, which shut the company for 18 months and cost $150 million in anticipated revenue.
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