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The Met withdrew $40 million this season from its endowment and it currently has about $255 million, Gelb said, down from $309 million last July.
Metropolitan Ope in N.Y. sold 72% of its available tickets this season, highest since pandemic →
“But I had always thought of it as an oratorio,” along the lines of Handel’s “Messiah.” That changed, he said, when he met with Lileana Blain-Cruz, resident director of Lincoln Center Theater, who told him ”her dream was to stage it as a fully realized production.”
John Adams' Nativity oratorio 'El Nino' gets colorful staging at the Met →
