They Told Me Not to Take that Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center (61 page)

    
The Secret History of the Mongols,
58

    
Ta’ziyeh,
58

    
Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes,
58

    
Uncle Vanya
(Chekhov),
56

    
Vietnamese water puppets,
58

    
The Winter’s Tale
(Shakespeare),
55

    
Writing to Vermeer
(Greenaway),
58

    
As You Like It
(Shakespeare),
55

Lincoln Center Global,
40
,
296

Lincoln Center Out of Doors,
51

Lincoln Center Theater

    
Claire Tow Theater, creation of,
75
,
78

    
as member of 65th Street Group,
70
,
72

    
Metropolitan Opera, collaboration with,
109

    
new entrances and exits for,
85

    
Tony Awards,
17

Lincoln Center Theater, productions of

    
Coast of Utopia
(Stoppard),
17

    
Contact
(Stroman and Weidman),
17

    
Golden Boy
(Odets),
17

    
The Light in the Piazza
(Lucas and Guettel),
17

    
Other Desert Cities
(Baitz),
17

    
South Pacific
(Rodgers and Hammerstein),
17

    
War Horse
(Stafford),
17

Lincoln Center University,
300

Lincoln Ristorante,
38
,
95
,
110
,
171
,
299

Lindemann Young Artist Development Program,
109

Lindsay, John V.,
200
,
227

List, Albert,
60

List, Vera,
60

Litwin, Lenny,
112
,
175

Live From Lincoln Center,
24
,
110
,
243–244

Lizzie and John Tisch Media Wall,
98

Lombardi, Vince,
277

London Symphony Orchestra,
52

Lord, Winston,
227

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art,
257–258

Los Angeles Philharmonic,
52

Los Angeles Times,
on transformation of Alice Tully Hall,
87

Lourd, Bryan,
239

Luisi, Fabio,
180

Ma, Yo-Yo,
44
,
51

Maazel, Lorin,
14
,
124
,
126
,
135
,
229

Macaulay, Alistair,
46

MacDonald, Dwight,
258

Machiavelli,
23

Malkin, Peter,
295

Mallis, Fern,
169

Manganiyar Seduction,
52

Marclay, Christian,
62

Mark and Bruce (car mechanics),
269

Mark Morris Dance Company, productions of

    
Dido Aeneas,
45

    
L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato,
45

    
Mozart Dances,
45

Marsalis, Wynton,
16–17
,
105
,
108
,
218

Martin E. Segal Award,
216

Martins, Peter,
26
,
75
,
78
,
92
,
105
,
108
,
147
,
158–159

Marx, Karl,
146

Mazur, Kurt,
124
,
229

McDonald, Audra,
39
,
243–244

McVicar, David,
180

Mehta, Zarin,
88
,
123
,
124
,
127
,
128
,
133–135
,
222
,
229

Meier, Richard,
73
,
115

Mendez, Danny,
217
,
218

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

    
Anna Wintour, advice from,
168–170

    
Gelb’s complaints about,
172–173

    
impact of on local community,
175–176

    
move from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center,
165–167

    
revenue from,
36

    
Wolkoff as fashion ambassador,
170–171

Mercury Marquis,
27–29
,
38
,
86
,
252–253
,
269–270

Messiaen, Olivier,
108

Metropolitan Museum of Art,
203

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala,
170

Metropolitan Opera

    
annual operating budget,
177

    
artistic productivity,
178

    
board of directors, challenges for,
194

    
bond sale,
181
,
186

    
Chagall tapestries, as loan collateral,
181–182

    
employees,
177–178

    
endowment, erosion of,
181
,
186

    
expenses,
181

    
financial difficulties of,
16
,
68–69
,
182–190
,
192–194

    
fund-raising,
181
,
185
,
194

    
Gelb’s excuses for financial situation,
184–185

    
labor negotiations,
189–190

    
Levy’s financial advice for,
192–193

    
at Lincoln Center Festival,
108

    
media coverage of,
2
,
182–183

    
movie simulcasting,
179

    
obstructionist policy of,
88

    
revenue enhancement suggestions for,
187

    
ticket prices,
180–181

    
unionized workforce, reaction to financial situation,
185–188

Metropolitan Opera, productions of

    
Don Carlo
(Verdi),
180

    
Falstaff
(Verdi),
180

    
Le Compte Ory
(Rossini),
179

    
Madama Butterfly
(Puccini),
179

    
Maria Stuarda
(Donizetti),
180

    
The Nose
(Shostakovich),
179

    
Parsifal
(Wagner),
180

    
Prince Igor
(Borodin),
180

    
Ring Cycle
(Wagner),
179

    
Tosca
(Puccini),
179

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
109
,
180

Michalek, David,
62

Midsummer Night Swing,
49–50

Miller, Jonathan,
45

Milnes, Sherrill,
153

Milstein, Philip,
250

Minghella, Anthony,
179

Mitchell, Katie,
108

Mitsui & Co.,
40

Mitzi Newhouse Theater,
75
,
78

Mnouchkine, Ariane,
55

Moore, Henry,
59

Morgan Stanley Lobby,
76

Morris, William (Bill),
103
,
173

Mortier, Gerard,
140
,
144
,
223
,
230

Moss, Jane

    
leadership qualities of,
147
,
218
,
233

    
mentioned,
59
,
64

    
selection of music director for Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra,
42–46

    
suggested artistic initiatives for Avery Fisher Hall,
123

    
White Light Festival, creation of,
51–52

Mostly Mozart Festival, operas staged at

    
Cosi fan Tutte
(Mozart),
45

    
Don Giovanni
(Mozart),
44

    
A Flowering Tree
(Adams),
44

    
Il Re Pastore
(Mozart),
45

    
Laide
(Mozart),
45

    
Le Nozze di Figaro
(Mozart),
44

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra,
41–46
,
249

Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center,
258

Mubarak, Hosni,
222

Mueller, Robert,
231

Municipal Arts Society,
101

Munk, Nina,
182–183

Murphy, Tom,
56

Muschamp, Herbert,
87

Muti, Riccardo,
180

Myerson, Bess,
198

Nadel, Jack,
226

Nathan Cummings Foundation,
259

Nevelson, Louise,
60

New Orleans Musicians Village,
40

New York Choreographic Institute,
109

New York City Ballet

    
Balanchine, design of New York State Theater and,
67
,
140
,
201

    
evolution of interest in redevelopment,
68
,
87
,
88

    
impact of NYC Opera’s dissolution on,
157–158

    
Kathy Brown, as executive director,
159–160

    
management and governance of,
159–160

New York City Ballet Orchestra,
109

New York City Center,
56

New York City Council,
74

New York City Economic Development Corporation,
166

New York City Opera

    
Anna Nicole,
performance of,
155

    
bankruptcy of,
140
,
155

    
dissatisfaction with New York State Theater,
15

    
George Steel, as director of,
140
,
146–152
,
156
,
223
,
230

    
irresponsible management of,
230

    
as itinerant company,
151–155

    
Mortier, selection of as director,
144

    
Paul Kellogg, as director,
3
,
15
,
66
,
140
,
141
,
143
,
223
,
230

    
search for new home,
15
,
66–68
,
141–143

New York Magazine

    
on Cardiff’s
Forty-Part Motet,
62–63

    
on Lincoln Center redevelopment,
2

    
on Mortier,
144–145

    
on New York City Opera,
155

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