Talk:Unknown Seasons/@comment-2A02:1812:1126:1E00:B0B9:94E:79FB:89F-20190310143923/@comment-25069336-20200621232213

The fact that you doubt their quality does not make their quality doubtful, you are the doubtful one.

Semantics aside, their quality is not doubtable just because you doubt it. I think Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chenier to be works of lesser stature than the two you mention, but I know many people enjoy them, so I would never presume to dictate against the investment of resources to satisfy the taste of that segment of the population.

And by the way, who thinks of operas premiered in the 1980s as "new creations?" That's tantamount to someone in the 1940s considering Tosca or Merry Widow a new work.

Akhnaten was a tremendous popular success when the Met presented it (and before that--just to focus in NY--when NYC opera premiered it here). I know people that went to see it several times, this last time around. The success of the recent production was such that the house has already programmed a revival in 2021-2022. And Nixon in China is, according to many (a group which evidently does not include you), among the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th Century.

If you think opera is just voices in a repertory setting, go to the performances you want to experience, and let the House carry on with its artistic mission.