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Monday, 20 May, 2002, 11:12 GMT 12:12 UK
Miller 'fired' by New York opera house
Miller has criticised the opera star system before
Jonathan Miller has said he considers himself "fired" by the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, after a dispute with general manager Joseph Volpe four years ago
In an interview with US music magazine Opera News, the director said the falling-out followed artistic disagreements with star soprano Cecilia Bartoli.
The opera house manager sided with the star and, according to Miller, "kept on sort of jabbing a blunt finger in my face". In his interview with music critic Martin Bernheimer, Miller also renewed his attack on what he called "Jurassic Park performers". 'Massively inert' He singled out the Three Tenors, saying that Jose Carreras "just can't act" and describing Placido Domingo's work in a Miller production at La Scala as "stiff and unyielding in many ways". And he added he would never work with Luciano Pavarotti. Miller's remarks about working at the Met are unusual in their frankness.
Referring to the dispute with Bartoli over which arias to sing, Miller told Opera News: "I had a sort of set-to. "I expressed my misgivings quite strongly. I found the arias almost impossible to rehearse. "I couldn't get my head around things that had nothing do with the action." The Met's general manager then intervened. "It obviously got to Volpe's ears that I had been, as he would have said, uncooperative," said Miller. "When my agent made some inquiries about what other things I might be doing in New York the response left no doubt. I'd been fired". But Miller is returning to the US to direct Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin this summer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Some of the best things I've done are in what is often disparagingly called the regions," said Miller.
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