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The Metropolitan Opera Brings Salome a New Head
“No one in their right mind would ever do this.”
There aren’t many theaters that can do that.” Still, in Willis’s words, ten people is an “exponentially small” team for the amount of work they have to do, because the Met is a huge performing-arts factory, with new productions, shows in repertory, and singers constantly coming and going. On the day we chat, she is thinking about Salome, the filming of Le Nozze di Figaro, an incoming cast for Aida, and the upcoming productions of Antony & Cleopatra and Queen of Spades. “We turned that one out really quickly, but that’s just our education” — both Willis and Knowles went to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts — “and knowing products.” She adds that “a lot of times people call us a glam squad, which I absolutely abhor.
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