Title: A year at the Met /
Authors: Smith, Patrick J., 1932-
Publisher: Knopf,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Contents: First week: singing -- Second week: singing plus -- Third week: subscriptions, subscribers, and supporters -- Fourth week: down memory lane -- Fifth week: productions -- Sixth week: the comprimarios -- Seventh week: translation -- Eighth week: television -- Ninth week: the guild: resource or cash register? -- Tenth week: backstage -- Eleventh week: homage -- Twelfth week: the banyan tree -- Thirteenth week: authenticity and the blockbuster -- Fourteenth week: Christmas and "Hansel and Gretel" -- Fifteenth week: the archives -- Sixteenth week: in the gods -- Seventeenth week: the media and publicity -- Eighteenth week: the monument -- Nineteenth week: "Così fan tutte" and the big house -- Twentieth week: the fly in amber -- Twenty-first week: the chorus -- Twenty-second week: the genteel tradition -- Twenty-third week: they also serve who only stand and cheer -- Twenty-fourth week: second performances -- Twenty-fifth week: French opera and opera editions -- Twenty-sixth week: the orchestra -- Twenty-seventh week: the National Council and auditions -- Twenty-eighth week: fund raising -- Twenty-ninth week: the boards of directors -- Thirtieth week: finale, with penguins.