"Peter Gelb" (born 1953) is an American arts administrator. Since August 2006, he has been General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

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I intend to honor its great traditions and its loyal audience while hopefully arriving at the right formula of exciting new artistic initiative that will fill its seats well into the future.

Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.

What I'm not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that's how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.

My hope is that by the time this new Ring comes along, she will be ready to sing it.