NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera used to like to ring in the new year with a starry gala. But Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager since 2006, has preferred to use the occasion to unveil new ...
If Giacomo Puccini, nearly 100 years after his death, could have attended the Metropolitan Opera’s recent New Year’s Eve gala, he surely would have been impressed. The evening featured Anna Netrebko, ...