Word: toure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boon to audiences like Boston's is huge. The seven productions the Met has taken on tour this year represent the best of its repertory. Boston audiences still must endure the conditions of Hynes Auditorium--universally referred to as a "barn," with poor acoustics and bad sight lines. But in 1981 the Met in Boston will move to the refurbished Music Hall, and the last major advantage the New York house can claim will disappear...
...national tour--though probably a money-loser in itself--has done its share to boost the money flowing into the Met from its national audience. The tour also strengthens the Met's claim to be a national resource when it goes to seek grants from the federal government and national foundations...
...telecasts bring money in faster than the tour, might the Met curtail or abandon the tour? Walter Pierce, managing director of the Met in Boston, says that's not likely. "It's a tremendous undertaking--you literally move the opera house," Pierce says. "If it wasn't essential then the Met wouldn't do it. They want to be a national company and the tour is the only...
Some observers speculate that the telecasts may actually have led to the upgrading of the tour. "What they're televising is their finest stuff," a New York-based writer on music says. "If the company then shows up in your home town with lower quality than that, you'll feel you're getting short shrift...
Whatever has prompted the tour's dramatic increase in quality over the past three or four years, the change has placed the artistic shortcomings of the company in relief. It can muster high-quality productions and casts for the week-long stint in each of the cities the tour visits, but the regular season in New York is much less consistent...