27 Feb 2007
Met to Add Seven New Productions for 2007-8
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/arts/music/27met.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/arts/music/27met.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
By DANIEL J. WAKIN [NY Times, 27 February 2007]
The Metropolitan Opera will present seven new productions next season, the most since it moved into Lincoln Center in 1966, and intensify its campaign to make opera hot — or at least mildly picante in a media-saturated world.