“And yet this gives us something meaningful to do.” “There’s no substitute for performing,” he said.

“I think people recognize what the Met is trying to do,” he said, “and they express that without our having to hit them over the head.” The gala, he added, is instead a way for people feel a little like they’re back in the theater. Gelb was quick to emphasize that this is not “a PBS telethon.” Gelb said that in the past five weeks, the number of paid subscribers to that on-demand service has doubled, to 30,000.) Each stream is accompanied by a “Donate Now” button the At-Home Gala will have one, too, though Mr. Since the opera house went dark, it has posted a free stream from its vast Met Opera On Demand library every night.

Gelb - who will be hosting from New York along with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director, who is in Montreal - said that the idea came about because “I am determined to keep the Met in the consciousness of the broader public, and I am determined to use any possible means to do that.” The Met is no stranger to marathon galas, yet there hasn’t been anything like this in its history. Gelb as a village at the end of the earth in Poland. Anna Netrebko, in Vienna and Piotr Beczala, in what he described to Mr. Among them are Lisette Oropesa, in Baton Rouge, La. Eastern on Saturday and remain available until Sunday evening, has an only-in-opera level of aspiration and difficulty: a roster of more than 40 of the company’s starriest singers, plus members of the orchestra and chorus, performing live across nine time zones. The event, which will be streamed on at 1 p.m. With the Met closed to the public, its administrative staff has been busy with an emergency fund-raising campaign and, for the past two weeks, the At-Home Gala. Now, the pandemic has made them unwelcome, as Covid vaccine rates soar there.

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