Word: metropolitanism
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...lights dim, and a hush falls over the audience. A trumpet fanfare pierces the silence; suddenly a spotlight beam, crossing the stage of the New York Metropolitan Opera, illuminates the figure of a young man in a high priest's robe: Matthew Diller '81. A tenor aria fills the air; the audience stirs, and is moved to rousing applause. Diller turns to the audience, strides downstage, and then exits to the roar of the crowd--followed by high priests number two through twelve. From the wings, he watches the tenor take...
With over a hundred performances to his credit, Matthew Diller has graced the stage of the New York Metropolitan Opera with such immortals as Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price and Placido Domingo. He has known the great and the near-great, and also the not-so-great. Yes, Diller is one of that special corps of performers so essential to every opera--the extras. For what would the French revolution be without an angry peasant mob? Who will hold back the crowd in Boris Godounov when it surges to crown him king? For that Matter, who will...
...Diller, how did you get your start in the Metropolitan Opera...
...deduct contributions from his taxable estate if he has willed his treasures to a museum. The museums of America, Western Europe and Japan have at their disposal millions of dollars for acquisitions. The biggest spenders: France's Pompidou Center, Washington's National Gallery, New York's Metropolitan, the Getty in Malibu, Calif...
...difficult and, for most people, impossible to walk into a gallery and look at a work of art without its "value"-which means simply price, real or hypothetical-intruding on their reflections. After Velazquez's Juan de Pareja was bought at auction for New York's Metropolitan Museum for $5.5 million in 1970, the then director of the Met insisted, in his usual peppy, overbearing fashion, that the fuss about the price was all nonsense: in ten years' time nobody would care or even remember what the Met had laid out for this "supreme masterpiece...