Which makes me think, has Zeff staged many non-Italian operas?
Or does he just have an alternate, somewhat more restrained personality that goes by the name of Otto Schenk? 29 Arianna a Nasso says: October 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM 28 “Which makes me think, has Zeff staged many non-Italian operas?” Carmen and Antony & Cleopatra, both at the Met, the former also in Vienna and Verona. 30 La Cieca says: October 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM Gualtier, I remember the story somewhat differently. Juergen Flimm was announced as director of that Alagna/Gheorghiu Traviata but Volpe paid off that production team saying that the finished designs “looked more like Vienna than Paris.” He may have toyed with the idea of Jonathan Miller afterward. Simone Young was hardly dismissed at the behest of Alagna. She had been booed loudly practically every time she took a bow, including (IIRC) after Trovatore when she was about seven months pregnant. Yes, that’s right: she made such a mess of Trovatore that the Met audience booed a pregnant woman. We only have Volpe’s version of the s
