It has come to my attention via Twitter that The Metropolitan Opera is allowing publicists on stage.
OK, OK – so it’s just one really, really important and fancy publicist who actually handles The Met’s press, but if you think that’s stopping me from yearning/lobbying for a La Bohème walk-on townsperson, working girl, or shopkeeper role, you, sir or madam, are sorely mistaken.
Naturally, his appearance made it into the press. From Page Six of the New York Post:
Public relations legend Howard Rubenstein made his
Metropolitan Opera debut Saturday in the season premiere of Puccini’s
“La Boheme” (pictured above during Thursday’s dress rehearsal).
Reliving fond memories of being a walk-on in operas during his college
days in Philadelphia, Rubenstein appears as a “super” in the famous
market scene in Act 2.
Right, so, I’m around if you need me. And if I don’t get the call this time around, maybe Nico will let me stand behind a tree or something in his opera. Though I’d like to be a working girl standing behind a tree, if it’s all the same.