Grand Opera: The Story of the Met (63 page)

32
. “from the outside”: Justin Davidson,
New York
(Dec. 12, 2011). “acknowledged what many”: Wakin,
Times,
Oct. 11, 2012.

33
. “a dramaturgical traditionalist”: Matt Dobkin,
New York
(Jan. 8, 2006). “For some people”: Munk,
Vanity Fair
(May 2010). Luisi appears to share Levine’s view of trendy restagings: “He avoids working with directors who stage radical reinterpretations of opera story lines. Instead, the conductor looks for meaning in the score, which he calls his ‘codex.’ ” Jennifer Maloney,
Wall Street Journal,
April 7, 2012.

34
. “big, old-fashioned-looking”: Waleson,
Wall Street Journal (Online),
Sept. 25, 2012. “dramatic mishmash”: Martin Bernheimer,
Financial Times,
Sept. 26, 2012. “hardly a bold”: Tommasini,
Times,
Jan. 2, 2013. “this
Don Giovanni
”: Tommasini,
Times,
Oct. 15, 2011.

35
. “maximum-security facility”: Rupert Christiansen,
Daily Telegraph
(London), June 24, 2010. “This rejiggered
Rigoletto
”: Eric Myers,
Daily Variety,
Feb. 1, 2013.
Un Ballo in maschera
was designed by Paul Steinberg.
Rigoletto
was designed by Christine Jones.

36
. “contrarian yet predictable”: Baker (Feb. 2012): 50. “the grimness and”: Tommasini, Dec. 1, 2011. Robert Brill designed the 2011
Faust
. “perfectly suited to”: Waleson,
Wall Street Journal (Online),
Feb. 19, 2013. “so stuffed full”: Silverman,
Associated Press,
April 5, 2013. “all the theatrical”: Waleson,
Wall Street Journal (Online),
April 8, 2013.
Parsifal
was designed by Michael Levine.
Giulio Cesare
was designed by Robert Jones.

37
. “magical in every respect”: Waleson,
Wall Street Journal (Online),
Oct. 24, 2012.

38
. “tectonic,” Lepage in
Wagner’s Dream
.

39
. “worth its weight”: Silverman,
Associated Press,
Sept. 28, 2010. “audience . . . spellbound”: Claire Prentice,
Daily Telegraph
(London), Sept. 29, 2010. “playing with toys”: Bernheimer,
Financial Times,
Sept. 29, 2010. “The current conventional”: Fred Cohn,
Opera News
(Dec. 2010): 59.

40
. “a policy prompted”: Wakin. “less an interpretation”:
Opera News
(April 2012): 54. “The public is”: Ibid. (May 2012): 80. For other instances of Gelb’s attempts to suppress criticism of his regime, see
Times,
May 21, 2012.

41
. “My point was”: Brown,
Times,
March 24, 2013.

42
. “a certain amount”:
Times,
May 17, 2013.

In addition to proper names and titles of works, the index includes opera houses and companies with their locations, as well as the first instance of the use of foreign-language musical terms, which are defined in parentheses. Page numbers for illustrations are in italic, followed by
fig
for figures and
tab
for tables. Years listed in subentries are given in
boldface
.

Abbado, Claudio,
188
,
251
,
306

Abbey, Henry E.,
6
,
8
,
15–16
,
24–25
,
27
,
32
,
35–37
,
39
,
41
,
45–46
,
52
,
54
,
197
,
297
,
352
,
354
,
391–92

Abbiati (director),
17
tab
,
18
tab

Abduction from the Seraglio, The.
See
Entführung aus dem Serail, Die

Abramovitz, Max,
232

Academy of Music (Brooklyn),
82
,
85
,
307

Academy of Music (New York),
2–3
,
6
,
8
,
11
,
13
,
15
,
24
,
56
,
83

Academy of Music (Philadelphia),
85

Adams, John,
379

Adès, Thomas,
381

Adler, Kurt,
187
,
251

Adriana Lecouvreur
(Cilea),
77
,
134
;
1907
–
08
,
71
,
73
,
223
;
1962
–
63
,
223

Adrienne Lecouvreur:
play (Scribe),
14
,
72

Africaine, L’
(Meyerbeer),
14
,
39
,
52
;
1888
–
89
,
28
;
1891
–
92
,
38

Agnini, Armando,
110
tab
,
132
tab

Ägyptische Helena, Die
(Strauss):
1928
–
29
,
108
,
215
;
2006
–
07
,
362–64

Ahlquist, Karen,
394n13

Aïda
(Verdi),
16
,
143
,
166
,
168
,
201
,
206–7
,
305
;
1888
–
89
,
28
;
1908
–
9
,
188
;
1909
–
10
,
84
;
1930
–
31
,
114
;
1934
–
35
,
128
;
1935
–
36
,
146
;
1936
–
37
,
144
;
1944
–
45
,
180
;
1951
–
52
,
210
;
1957
–
58
,
298
;
1959
–
60
,
328
;
1961
–
62
,
328
;
1963
–
64
,
213
;
1972
–
73
,
259
;
1975
–
76
,
276–77
,
278
;
1988
–
89
,
300
,
301–2

Ailey, Alvin,
267
tab

Akhnaten
(Glass),
313

Alagna, Roberto,
320
,
348
,
375

Albanese, Licia,
149
,
161
,
174
,
178
,
356–57
,
365

Albery, Tim,
348

Alboni, Marietta,
14

Alceste
(Gluck),
172
;
1940
–
41
,
167–68
,
175–76
;
1951
–
52
,
176
;
1960
–
61
,
176
,
223

Alcestiad, The
(Talma),
240

Alda, Frances,
34
,
81
,
10
,
138–39
,
239

Alden, David,
382

Aldrich, Richard,
90

Alexander Nevsky
, film (Eisenstein),
351

Alexandrov, Yuri,
337

Alfano, Franco,
319

Allen, Fred,
192

Allen, Peter,
355

Allen, Reginald,
185

Allen, Steve,
358

Almanz, Fernand,
50
tab

Álvarez, Marcelo,
321

Alvary, Max,
34

Amara, Lucine,
190
,
202

Amato, Pasquale,
88
,
90
,
90
fig
,
239

Amelia al ballo.
See
Amelia Goes to the Ball

Amelia Goes to the Ball
(Menotti),
240
;
1937
–
38
,
147
,
217

American Tragedy, An
(Picker):
2005
–
06
,
314

Amico Fritz, L’
(Mascagni):
1893
–
94
,
44

Amore dei tre re, L’
(Montemezzi),
91
;
1922
–
23
,
135

Amore medico, L’
(Wolf-Ferrari),
97
tab

Anderson, June,
303
,
343

Anderson, Marion,
157
,
207–9
,
208
fig
,
224
,
230

Andrea Chénier
(Giordano):
1920
–
21
,
104
;
1954
–
55
,
223
;
1995
–
96
,
318
; recording,
217

Aniara
(Blomdahl),
254

Anima allegra
(Vittadini),
109
tab

Anisfeld, Boris,
106
–
7
tab
,
109
tab

Anna Bolena
(Donizetti),
21
;
2011
–
12
,
22
,
347
,
365
,
367
,
381

Ansermet, Ernest,
188
,
251

Anthony, Charles,
298

Antony and Cleopatra
(Barber),
240
;
1966
–
67
,
236–38
,
238
fig
,
243
,
248

Aoyama, Yoshio,
221
,
222

Apollinaire, Guillaume,
285

appoggiatura
(grace note),
9

Arabella
(Strauss):
1954
–
55
,
215–16
;
1982
–
83
,
287
,
320

Ardoin, John,
420n26

Ariadne auf Naxos
(Strauss),
366
;
1962
–
63
,
215–16
,
222
;
1992
–
93
,
345–46
;
2009
–
10
,
371

Arianne et Barbe-bleue
(Dukas),
96
tab

arioso
(in this context, a short aria),
71

Armida
(Rossini),
21
,
378
;
2009
–
10
,
22
,
378
,
389

Armide
(Gluck),
96
stab

Armistead, Horace,
194–95
,
217

Aronson, Boris,
239
,
248

Arroyo, Martina,
141
,
205
,
209
,
259

Asrael
(Franchetti):
1890
–
91
,
36

Astor, Caroline (Mrs. William Backhouse Astor),
34
,
80
,
395n10

Astor Place Opera House (New York),
12

Atlantida
(De Falla),
225
,
227

Attaque du Moulin, L’
(Bruneau):
1909
–
10
,
84

Attila
(Verdi):
2009
–
10
,
376–77

Auber, Daniel,
27
,
36

Auchincloss, Louis,
27
,
35