The Met is but one of several American performing-arts groups that are giving up on the entire 2020-21 season. Lincoln Center was in those far-off days the “home” of George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price and Beverly Sills, an irresistible draw for arts lovers of all kinds. To put these giants on the same campus was bound to make Lincoln Center a magnet for audiences. The success of Lincoln Center would inspire the building of similar urban performing-arts centers all over America, among them (to cite only a few) Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center, Dallas’s AT&T Performing Arts Center and Washington’s Kennedy Center. But that won’t work anymore, not at Lincoln Center and not anywhere else.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 07, 2020 20:37 UTC