Mourning Becomes Electra
The Met's first season at Lincoln Center featured nine new productions, including the world premiere of Marvin David Levy’s "Mourning Becomes Electra". However, the company would not premiere any new operas for decades afterwards, until 1991's "The Ghosts of Versailles" by John Corigliano. One critic described the period as "a quarter-century in which the notion of commissioned work reminded Met administrators of the emblematic failure of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" and the lukewarm reception of Marvin David Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra"."